Table 2 Results of bootstrap mediation analyses for life satisfaction including control variables (N = 291 university students).

From: The relationship between just world belief and wellbeing, cheating behaviors, and academic work behaviors during COVID 19 among university students

Life satisfaction

 

b (se)

t

p

CI

Direct effects

Constant

− 0.92 (0.46)

− 2.01

0.05

[− 1.83; − 0.01]

Personal BJW

0.57 (0.07)

7.75

 < 0.001

[0.43; 0.72]

Lecturer justice

− 0.01 (0.09)

− 0.16

0.87

[− 0.19; 0.16]

Fellow student justice

− 0.04 (0.08)

− 0.47

0.63

[− 0.19; 0.12]

Procrastination

0.23 (0.09)

2.64

0.009

[0.06; 0.40]

Indirect effects

Total

0.00 (0.05)

–

–

[− 0.08; 0.09]

Lecturer justice

− 0.01 (0.05)

–

–

[− 0.10; 0.10]

Fellow student justice

− 0.02 (0.07)

–

–

[− 0.16; 0.11]

Procrastination

0.04 (0.02)

–

–

[0.01; 0.08]

Direct effects of control variables

Gender

0.32 (0.11)

3.01

0.003

[0.11; 0.53]

Age

0.00 (0.01)

0.01

0.99

[− 0.01; 0.01]

Learning

− 0.16 (0.12)

− 1.30

0.19

[− 0.41; 0.08]

Distance to exam

0.10 (0.07)

1.42

0.16

[− 0.04; 0.25]

General BJW

0.09 (0.06)

1.70

0.10

[− 0.02; 0.21]

Self− efficacy

0.20 (0.08)

2.63

0.001

[0.05; 0.34]

Overstatement of positive qualities

0.06 (0.06)

1.07

0.29

[− 0.05; 0.17]

Understatement of negative qualities

0.01 (0.07)

− 0.17

0.87

[− 0.15; 0.13]

  1. BJW = Belief in a just world; For gender, 1 = female and 2 = male. Psychological variables ranged from 1 to 6 with lower values indicating stronger endorsement of the constructs, procrastination ranged from 1 to 5 with higher values indicating stronger endorsement of the constructs. Values describe unstandardized path coefficients. CI = 95% confidence interval. Estimates are based on a bootstrapping procedure with 5000 bootstrap samples. Used Process (Hayes 2018) Model 4.
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