Table 3.
Results for Moderated-Mediation Analyses for Study 2, by Condition
| Condition: Casual vs business casual | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Appropriateness (MED) | Perceptions of ethicality (Y) | ||||||
| Coefficient (SE) | Lower level confidence interval | Upper level confidence interval | Coefficient (SE) | Lower level confidence interval | Upper level confidence interval | ||
| Attire style, X (a1) | − 0.89 (0.20) | − 1.27 | − 0.51 | Attire style, X (c') | 0.04 (0.10) | − 0.16 | 0.24 |
| Industry type, W (a2) | 0.20 (0.11) | − 0.01 | 0.42 | Appropriateness, MED (b) | 0.40 (0.05) | 0.30 | 0.49 |
| X × W (a3) | − 0.01 (0.25) | − 0.50 | 0.48 | Constant (iy) | 2.90 (0.25) | 2.43 | 3.37 |
| Constant (imed) | 4.34 (0.09) | 4.16 | 4.51 | ||||
| R2 = 0.17 F(3, 276) = 19.33, p < 0.001 | R2 = 0.27 F(2, 277) = 51.15, p < 0.001 | ||||||
| Moderated-mediation | − 0.00 (0.10) | − 0.19 | 0.20 | ||||
| Indirect effects (W = 0) | − 0.35 (0.09) | − 0.55 | − 0.18 | ||||
| Indirect effects (W = 1) | − 0.36 (0.08) | − 0.51 | − 0.22 | ||||
| Condition: Casual vs business formal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Appropriateness (MED) | Perceptions of ethicality (Y) | ||||||
| Coefficient (SE) | Lower level confidence interval | Upper level confidence interval | Coefficient (SE) | Lower level confidence interval | Upper level confidence interval | ||
| Attire style, X (a1) | − 1.05 (0.19) | − 1.42 | − 0.68 | Attire style, X (c') | 0.20 (0.10) | − 0.01 | 0.39 |
| Industry type, W (a2) | − 0.09 (0.10) | − 0.29 | 0.11 | Appropriateness, MED (b) | 0.40 (0.05) | 0.29 | 0.48 |
| X × W (a3) | 0.29 (0.24) | − 0.19 | 0.76 | Constant (iy) | 2.74 (0.22) | 2.33 | 3.21 |
| Constant (imed) | 4.50 (0.07) | 4.35 | 4.64 | ||||
| R2 = 0.17 F(3, 275) = 19.14, p < 0.001 | R2 = 0.22 F(2, 276) = 39.94, p < 0.001 | ||||||
| Moderated-mediation | 0.11 (0.10) | − 0.07 | 0.31 | ||||
| Indirect effects (W = 0) | − 0.42 (0.09) | − 0.60 | − 0.25 | ||||
| Indirect effects (W = 1) | − 0.30 (0.07) | − 0.45 | − 0.17 | ||||
| Condition: Business casual vs business formal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Appropriateness (MED) | Perceptions of ethicality (Y) | ||||||
| Coefficient (SE) | Lower level confidence interval | Upper level confidence interval | Coefficient (SE) | Lower level confidence interval | Upper level confidence interval | ||
| Attire style, X (a1) | − 0.16 (0.11) | − 0.38 | 0.06 | Attire style, X (c') | 0.15 (0.09) | − 0.01 | 0.32 |
| Industry type, W (a2) | − 0.09 (0.10) | − 0.29 | 0.12 | Appropriateness, MED (b) | 0.36 (0.08) | 0.21 | 0.52 |
| X × W (a3) | 0.30 (0.15) | 0.01 | 0.58 | Constant (iy) | 2.92 (0.35) | 2.18 | 3.59 |
| Constant (imed) | 4.50 (0.07) | 4.35 | 4.64 | ||||
| R2 = 0.02 F(3, 285) = 1.51, p = 0.21 | R2 = 0.10 F(2, 286) = 15.78, p < 0.001 | ||||||
| Moderated-mediation | 0.11 (0.06) | 0.00 | 0.22 | ||||
| Indirect effects (W = 0) | − 0.06 (0.04) | − 0.14 | 0.02 | ||||
| Indirect effects (W = 1) | 0.05 (0.04) | − 0.02 | 0.13 | ||||
Moderated-mediation determines if moderated-mediation is present, where it is present if zero (0) is not in the 95% bootstrap confidence interval
Indirect effects represent the conditional indirect effects at both levels of the moderator (W = industry type), where 0 = professional services and 1 = IT