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Table 3 Estimated instantaneous total, natural direct, natural indirect, and relative natural indirect effects for the monotonic mediation model for child adaptation as a function of family functioning as mediated by difficulty controlling for having Crohn’s disease or a bowel disorder and as moderated by having diabetes with independent omitted factors or errors

From: Incorporating nonlinearity into mediation analyses

Diabetesa

Family functioning

Instantaneous total effect

Instantaneous natural direct effect

Instantaneous natural indirect effect

Relative instantaneous natural indirect effect

no

1

931.5

931.4

0.1

<0.001

no

2

235.8

232.8

3.0

0.013

no

3

126.3

103.5

22.8

0.181

no

4

154.4

58.2

96.1

0.623

  1. aThere was no mediation for the diabetes = yes case