Direct and indirect effects
SE, anxiety
The direct relationship between attachment anxiety and physical activity was significant when mediators were included in the model (Attachment avoidance did not predict 2-year post-operative physical activity when the mediators were included in the model (
Indirect effects (IE) and bootstrapped standard errors (SE) for the serial mediation modelsIn other words, preoperative attachment anxiety predicted lower 1- year post-operative self-esteem (