In Mediation analysis, if there is a 0 in between my Confidence intervals for Indirect effect, but my P value is significant, then what should i report? Can i report only the p value, instead of confidence intervals? Or shall i assess VAF (Variance accounted for) ? to evaluate whether it is partial or complete mediation.
Dear Karan Berry
If there is a 0 between the lower and the upper bounds, that means it's insignificant, and for the same result, the p-value CAN NOT BE significant. Please check the results carefully.
Firstly it should be significant then only there is a mediation.
and if there is a direct significant relationship between DV and IDV, then its partial mediation case.
On the other side if there is NO direct significant relationship between DV and IDV, and if the mediating variable variable shows a significant value then that is a case of FULL mediation.
I hope it helps. :)
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