Investigating the youth physical activity promotion model among Chinese middle school students

BMC Public Health

Table 3 Direct, indirect, and total effects of the statistical model

Relationships	Point Estimation	Product of Coefficients			Bootstrapping
		Product of Coefficients			BC 95% CI		Percentile 95% CI
		SE	Z	P	Lower	Upper	Lower	Upper
Specific indirect effects
RF→Able→Worth→PA	0.033	0.016	2.063	0.020	0.011	0.078	0.008	0.068
RF→Able→PA	0.115	0.039	2.949	0.002	0.050	0.205	0.046	0.198
RF→Worth→PA	0.079	0.035	2.257	0.012	0.025	0.170	0.019	0.158
EN→Able→Worth→PA	0.011	0.005	2.200	0.014	0.003	0.023	0.002	0.021
EN→Able→PA	0.037	0.014	2.643	0.004	0.015	0.070	0.013	0.067
Total indirect effect
RF→PA	0.228	0.054	4.222	0.000	0.137	0.351	0.131	0.343
EN→PA	0.047	0.015	3.133	0.001	0.021	0.081	0.020	0.080
Direct effect
RF→PA	0.349	0.083	4.205	0.000	0.181	0.510	0.181	0.509
EN→PA	0.115	0.025	4.600	0.000	0.068	0.165	0.066	0.163
Total effect
RF→PA	0.576	0.069	8.348	0.000	0.437	0.708	0.436	0.707
EN→PA	0.162	0.024	6.750	0.000	0.116	0.211	0.115	0.210

Note: N = 463. 5,000 bootstrap sample; SE, standard error; BC, bias corrected; CI, confidence interval; Worth, Is it worth it?; Able, Am I able?; RF, Reinforcing Factors; EF, Enabling Factors; PA, Physical Activity

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