The mediating role of social capital in the relationship between socioeconomic status and adolescent wellbeing: evidence from Ghana

Table 6 Result of bootstrapping mediation analysis in Model 2: Assessing social capital as a mediator in the relationship between socioeconomic (SES) and happiness

Indirect Path	Indirect Effect		95% BCCIs (B)		Ratio (*100) Specific Mediation Effect to Total Effect^a (%)
	B	BootSE	Lower	Upper
SES → FSB → LS	0.019	0.004	0.012	0.028	39.583
SES → SSB → LS	0.000	0.001	−0.002	0.002	0.000
SES → FAS → LS	0.012	0.003	0.006	0.019	25.000
SES → FC → LS	0.002	0.001	0.000	0.004	4.167

N = 1236, B Unstandardised coefficients, BootSE Bootstrapping standard error, BCCIs Bias-corrected confidence intervals, ^a Ratio calculated as 100 × (indirect effect (B) / total effect), where the total effect is the sum of all mediation effects (i.e., the sum of indirect effects) and the direct effect [33]. About a total proportion of 69% was mediated by social capital. All the sociodemographic variables were controlled for in the model

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