The impact of flood action groups on the uptake of flood management measures

Dittrich, Ruth; Wreford, Anita; Butler, Adam; Moran, Dominic

doi:10.1007/s10584-016-1752-8

Table 3 Significant results of the mediation analysis for mediation of flood experience variables and flood action group variables through coping and threat appraisal. The figures provided in the table specify the p-values for the equations on top of the columns testing their significance

From: The impact of flood action groups on the uptake of flood management measures

	Dataset and variables tested for mediation	Response variable Z	Mediator Y	Explanatory variable X	Z = bX	Z = aY + bX vs. Z = bX	Z = aY + bX vs. Z = aY	Y = bX
Flood gates
E1 Partial mediation	Flood action group variables
	Communities with flood action group	Intended uptake	Response efficacy	Usefulness	0.007	0.033	0.045	0.049
	Communities with flood action group	Intended uptake	Self-efficacy	Information on available measures	0.002	0.006	0.037	0.007
	Flood experience variables
			Self-efficacy	Post-2012 flood experience	0.015	0.003	0.035	0.035
	All communities	Intended uptake	Threat	Post-2012 flood experience	0.015	0.038	0.035	0.000
			Threat	Average flood experience	0.009	0.025	0.040	0.000
E2 Complete mediation	Flood action group variables
	Communities with a flood action group	Intended uptake	Self-efficacy	Information on implementation	0.020	0.002	0.177	0.001
	Communities with a flood action group	Intended uptake	Response efficacy	Information on implementation	0.020	0.036	0.090	0.000
	Flood experience variables
	All communities		Risk	Post-2012 flood experience	0.015	0.002	0.143	0.000
		Intended uptake	Risk	Average flood experience	0.009	0.001	0.171	0.000
			Response efficacy	Post-2012 flood experience	0.022	0.002	0.376	0.000
Sandbags
F1 Complete mediation	Flood experience variables
F1 Complete mediation	All Communities	Post-2012 uptake	Risk Risk	Post-2012 flood experience Average flood experience	0.040 0.022	0.002 0.002	0.520 0.376	0.000 0.00
Flood warnings
G1 Complete mediation	Flood action group variables
		Post-2012 uptake	Self efficacy	Usefulness	0.021	0.008	0.212	0.014
		Post-2012 uptake	Response efficacy	Usefulness	0.021	0.005	0.244	0.004
		Intended uptake	Self efficacy	Usefulness	0.009	0.001	0.199	0.014
		Intended uptake	Response efficacy	Usefulness	0.009	0.000	0.173	0.004
	Communities with a flood action group	Post-2012 uptake	Self efficacy	Information on implementation	0.046	0.000	0.641	0.005
		Intended uptake	Response efficacy	Information on implementation	0.046	0.000	0.191	0.028
		Intended uptake	Self efficacy	Information on available measures	0.012	0.001	0.541	0.004
			Response efficacy	Information on available measures	0.012	0.000	0.117	0.031
		Post-2012 uptake	Self efficacy	Information on flood warnings	0.001	0.008	0.123	0.000
		Intended uptake	Self efficacy	Information on flood warnings	0.001	0.003	0.202	0.000
	All communities	Post-2012 uptake	Self efficacy	Existing schemes	0.012	0.001	0.551	0.000
		Post-2012 uptake	Response efficacy	Existing schemes	0.012	0.001	0.228	0.000
		Intended uptake	Self efficacy	Existing schemes	0.022	0.000	0.325	0.000
		Intended uptake	Response efficacy	Existing schemes	0.022	0.005	0.199	0.000

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