What does this output mean?!

[AryaStark]

Hey Guys,
So I have done a multiple mediation analysis with Preacher and Hays (2008) macro and have gotten this output that is in their origional article.
http://www.people.ku.edu/~preacher/pubs/preacher_hayes_2008b.pdf

However, their article does not fully explain what all of this means? Does anyone know where I can find this info / know this info so I can tell what is and what isn't a mediator etc?

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[JockNerd]

Well... if you're looking at multiple mediation you specify the mediators. So, everything you set up to be mediators are mediators. If you mean, what's a good mediator, you have to look and see which a and b paths are and are not significant. In one run of multiple simultaneous mediation you can't automatically tell which mediators are contributing because you only get the one c-prime path which includes effects of all the mediators.

It might just be easier for you to run that whole thing in mplus, btw (demo version allows up to seven variables, I think).