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Mediation in experimental and nonexperimental studies: New procedures and recommendations.
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Mediation is said to occur when a causal effect of some variable X on an outcome Y is explained by some intervening variable M. The authors recommend that with small to moderate samples, bootstrap methods (B. Efron & R. Tibshirani, 1993) be used to assess mediation. Bootstrap tests are powerful because they detect that the sampling distribution of the mediated effect is skewed away from 0. They argue that R. M. Baron and D. A. Kenny's (1986) recommendation of first testing the X --> Y association for statistical significance should not be a requirement when there is a priori belief that the effect size is small or suppression is a possibility. Empirical examples and computer setups for bootstrap analyses are provided.
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“In addition, the Sobel test for measuring the magnitude of mediating effects assumes the normality of the sample distribution when verifying the significance [157,158].”
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“On the other hand, SEM analysis has the advantage of using confidence intervals through free and verifiable bootstrapping under normal distribution assumptions [158].”
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“In line with existing recommendations, mediation analyses were conducted via bootstrapping, allowing to estimate the confidence intervals of the indirect effects [77]. 5000 bootstrapped samples were used with a 95% confidence interval for each indirect effect.”
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“Bootstrap mediation analyses can be applied when the sample size is small or moderate (e.g., n = 20–60) [79, 80].”
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“As previous research indicated that bootstrapping provides more accurate estimates of the indirect effect of standard errors compare to other approaches (Shrout & Bolger, 2002), bootstrapping was used to test the mediation effect in the current study.”
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“Note that a statistically significant total effect of X on Y is not necessary for mediation to occur and that mediation analysis does not require evidence of a total effect prior to investigating direct and indirect effects [63–66].”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Shrout, P. E., & Bolger, N.
- Affiliations
- New York University (US)
- Venue
- Psychological Methods
- Published
- 2002
- Volume
- 7
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 422-445
- ISSN
- 1082-989X (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1463
- OpenAlex
- W2104057213
- Cited by
- 11,335
- References
- 66
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- FWCI
- 44.55
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Psychological Methods (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health (R01-MH60366, MH60366, R01MH060366)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Advanced Causal Inference Techniques
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Management Science and Operations Research › Psychometric Methodologies and Testing
- Keywords
- mediation analysis, bootstrapping, indirect effects, mediators, suppression effect, small sample inference, experimental study, statistical significance testing
- MeSH terms
- Humans, Models, Psychological, Psychology, Stress, Psychological, Guidelines as Topic
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