significant indirect effect but insignificant total effect

[Haimei Yu]

When I conducted mixed-effects model, I found X--> Y, X --> M, M --> Y all significant. But when I conducted multilevel mediation analysis with lavaan, the indirect effect was significant but the total effect was not. How should I interpret this? 

Thank you so much for any help!!

[Yubo Xu]

Hi Haimei,

Do you mean the path X-->Y was not significant, but the indirect effect was? I usually understand it as we test the relationship between X and Y through M, so when controlling M, X-->Y may be insignificant.  

When I conducted mediation analysis, I also conducted bootstrapping and reported the confidence interval, which could help to explain the significance of mediation effects. 

Hope this helped!  

Best,

Yubo 

On Fri, Sep 20, 2024 at 11:03 AM Haimei Yu <yuha...@gmail.com> wrote:

When I conducted mixed-effects model, I found X--> Y, X --> M, M --> Y all significant. But when I conducted multilevel mediation analysis with lavaan, the indirect effect was significant but the total effect was not. How should I interpret this? 

Thank you so much for any help!!

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