How self-efficacy shapes professional identity: the mediating role of meaning in life and self-esteem in pre-service physical education teachers

Table 2 Direct, indirect, and total effects in the multiple mediator model

Path	Estimated effect	Boot LLCI	Boot ULCI	Ratio
Direct effect
SEF→PI	-0.15	-0.33	0.02	34%
All indirect effects	0.52	0.23	0.91	66%
SEF→MIL→PI	0.42	0.22	0.65	53.06%
SEF→SES→PI	0.04	0.01	0.11	5.2%
SEF→MIL→SES→PI	0.06	0.01	0.15	7.74%

Note: SEF, Self-efficacy. PI, Professional identity. MIL, Meaning in life. SES, Self-esteem. Boot LLCI, the lower bound of the 95% confidence interval. Boot ULCI, the upper limit of the 95% confidence interval (Percentile Bootstrap Method with Bias Correction). The Bootstrap sample size is set at 5000

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