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A comparison of methods to test mediation and other intervening variable effects
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A Monte Carlo study compared 14 methods to test the statistical significance of the intervening variable effect. An intervening variable (mediator) transmits the effect of an independent variable to a dependent variable. The commonly used R. M. Baron and D. A. Kenny (1986) approach has low statistical power. Two methods based on the distribution of the product and 2 difference-in-coefficients methods have the most accurate Type I error rates and greatest statistical power except in 1 important case in which Type I error rates are too high. The best balance of Type I error and statistical power across all cases is the test of the joint significance of the two effects comprising the intervening variable effect.
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- Authors
- MacKinnon, D. P., Lockwood, C. M., Hoffman, J. M., West, S. G., & Sheets, V.
- Affiliations
- Arizona State University (US)
- Venue
- Psychological Methods
- Published
- 2002
- Volume
- 7
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 83-104
- ISSN
- 1082-989X (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1463
- PMC
- PMC2819363
- OpenAlex
- W2068719957
- Cited by
- 9,406
- References
- 60
- Citations by year
- 2026: 271 · 2025: 308 · 2024: 348 · 2023: 360 · 2022: 450 · 2021: 453 · 2020: 446 · 2019: 441 · 2018: 423 · 2017: 463 · 2016: 464 · 2015: 559 · 2014: 610 · 2013: 599 · 2012: 597
- FWCI
- 94.81
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Psychological Methods (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (DA 09757, R01DA009757, R37DA009757)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Advanced Causal Inference Techniques
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Management Science and Operations Research › Psychometric Methodologies and Testing
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference
- Keywords
- mediation analysis, statistical power, type I error rate, Monte Carlo simulation
- MeSH terms
- Humans, Models, Psychological
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