Mediation Analysis in Social Psychology
Current Practices and New Recommendations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23313630 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Derek D Rucker (0000-0002-4729-0549), Kristopher J Preacher (0000-0003-4099-3636, University of Kansas), Zakary L Tormala (Stanford University), Richard E Petty (0000-0002-2870-8575, The Ohio State University) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 359-371 |
| Publication date | 2011-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social and Personality Psychology Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1751-9004 • E-ISSN: 1751-9004 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1751-9004.2011.00355.x |
| OpenAlex | W2160326831 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 622 |
| References cited | 28 |
A key aim of social psychology is to understand the psychological processes through which independent variables affect dependent variables in the social domain. This objective has given rise to statistical methods for mediation analysis. In mediation analysis, the significance of the relationship between the independent and dependent variables has been integral in theory testing, being used as a basis to determine (1) whether to proceed with analyses of mediation and (2) whether one or several proposed mediator(s) fully or partially accounts for an effect. Synthesizing past research and offering new arguments, we suggest that the collective evidence raises considerable concern that the focus on the significance between the independent and dependent variables, both before and after mediation tests, is unjustified and can impair theory development and testing. To expand theory involving social psychological processes, we argue that attention in mediation analysis should be shifted towards assessing the magnitude and significance of indirect effects.
Affect (linguistics) · Cognitive psychology · Mediation · Social science · Sociology · Structural equation modeling · Variables · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology
Life history strategy and human cooperation in economic games
The social effect of exposure to mental illness media portrayals
Mommy in the kitchen, Daddy in politics? The influence of parental labour division on children’s political gender role attitudes
Emotion dysregulation
La invocatio como marca de autografía en los manuscritos teatrales del Siglo de Oro
Mediating Effects of Exposure to Violence in Different Contexts of Child-to-Parent Violence
Maternal Anxiety and Children’s Laboratory Pain
The experience of collective participation
End of Traditional Baron, Kenny Mediating Analysis
Analysis of College Students' Happiness in Religious and General Colleges
Perception of Falls and Confidence in Self-Management of Falls among Older Adults
Self-compassion mediates the link between dependency and depressive symptomatology in college students
What determines incumbent vote in Indonesia? Understanding the roles of economic conditions, religiousness, political ideology, and incumbent performance
Solidarity‐based collective action among third parties
Felt power explains the link between position power and experienced emotions
Do emotional control beliefs lead people to approach positive or negative situations? Two competing effects of control beliefs on emotional situation selection
Does Personal Distress Mediate the Effect of Mindfulness on Professional Quality of Life
Efectos de la mediación parental, habilidades digitales, género y condición socioeconómica en el uso de internet en niñas, niños y adolescentes
Symmetric and complementary fit based on prototypical attributes of soccer teams
Benevolent sexism toward men
The impact of a victim-focused apology on forgiveness in an intergroup context
Predicting depressive symptoms from acculturative family distancing
Perceived racial discrimination and racial identity profiles among African American adolescents
Ethnic discrimination and weight outcomes among Latinx emerging adults
Rejection-(dis)identification and ethnic political engagement among first-generation Latino immigrants to the United States
A novel measure of effect size for mediation analysis.
Two-condition within-participant statistical mediation analysis
A Double‐Edged Sword
Extracurricular Activities in Multiethnic Middle Schools
A Discussion on Testing Methods for Mediated Moderation Models
Close relationship processes and health
Existential isolation and death thought accessibility
Authenticity and subjective well-being
Is Body Surveillance Trivial? A Model of Body Dissatisfaction in Women based on the Sociocultural Model, Self-Determination Theory and Objectification Theory
Perceived social mobility and system justification predict greater well‐being, but less prosocial behaviour
Assessing the Role of Honour Culture and Image Concerns in Impeding Apologies
Late Abrahamic reunion? Religious fundamentalism negatively predicts dual Abrahamic group categorization among Muslims and Christians
On the relation between social class and prejudice
Friendship With Immigrants and Inclusive Policies Correspond to More Positive Perceptions of Immigrants
Mapping of Meaning and Pleasure on the Temporal Horizon
The “gay agenda
The Effect of Family Planning Counseling on Incident Pregnancy in Nepal
Do Social Support, Perceived Stress, and Psychological Distress Mediate the Relationship Between Social Problem‐Solving and Suicidality in People With Gender Dysphoria
Liberals, Conservatives, and Latin America
Psychological Distance to Science Affects Science Evaluations
Implicit theories about willpower predict the activation of a rest goal following self-control exertion
Why bother? Death, failure, and fatalistic withdrawal from life
An eye for the I
The social advantage of miscalibrated individuals
True to which self? Lay rationalism and decision satisfaction in self-control conflicts
Stereotype validation
Belief in the immutability of attitudes both increases and decreases advocacy
Honesty-humility under threat
Understanding contemporary forms of exploitation
The trade-off between accuracy and precision in latent variable models of mediation processes
Interpersonal emotion regulation
How you look is who you are
I ain’t no fortunate one
Boosting beauty in an economic decline
Moral self-regulation, moral identity, and religiosity
When individual goal pursuit turns competitive
Looking back to move forward
Daily goal progress is facilitated by spousal support and promotes psychological, physical, and relational well-being throughout adulthood
Why do the lonely stay lonely? Chronically lonely adolescents’ attributions and emotions in situations of social inclusion and exclusion
Replication and extension of the military family stress model
Does aggregate school-wide achievement mediate fifth grade outcomes for former early childhood education participants
Does caregivers’ use of praise reduce children’s externalizing behavior? A longitudinal observational test in the context of a parenting program
We can work it out
Statistical mediation analysis with a multicategorical independent variable
Supportive error feedback fosters students' adaptive reactions towards errors
Academic motivation–achievement cycle and the behavioural pathways
Effects of social mistreatment, academic alienation, and developmental challenge on university students' well‐being through coping strategies
Parenting stress as a mediator of trauma exposure and mental health outcomes in young children
Examining social-cognitive theory constructs as mediators of behaviour change in the active team smartphone physical activity program
A Longitudinal Investigation Into Marital Quality as a Mediator Linking Childhood Abuse to Affective Symptoms
The Importance of Racial Socialization
Friendless Adolescents
Linking Creative Self-Efficacy and Emotional Exhaustion
Mother-Reported and Children’s Perceived Social and Academic Competence in Clinic-Referred Youth
Teachers’ professional competence and wellbeing
How do mindfulness-based cognitive therapy and mindfulness-based stress reduction improve mental health and wellbeing? A systematic review and meta-analysis of mediation studies
On the Interpretation and Use of Mediation
Twenty Years of Stereotype Threat Research
Global and Local Concerns
Social Support and Physical Health
Mediation Analyses in Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling
Environmental regulation and carbon emission
The gateway belief model
Nostalgia-Evoked Inspiration
Mediation analysis in partial least squares path modeling
Helicopter Parenting and Emerging Adult Self-Efficacy
Regression-based statistical mediation and moderation analysis in clinical research
Authenticity as a pathway to neutral acceptance of death
Retrospectively appraised life changes since the German reunification and health
Psychological Well-Being and Work Engagement among Italian Social Workers
Thinking About Distant Future Self Leads to Better Current Task Performance Through Higher Future Self-Appraisals
Inspiring or demoralizing? Deservingness perceptions help determine why emerging adults experience positive or negative effects from envy-inducing social media posts
Effect of information encounter on concerns over healthy eating– mediated through body comparison and moderated by body mass index or body satisfaction
Unleashing the Furr-Recovery Method
The relationship between passion and athlete identity in sport
Advances In Experimental Social Psychology
Modeling Contextual Effects in Longitudinal Studies
Introduction to Statistical Mediation Analysis
Ease of Retrieval Effects in Persuasion
Mediators, moderators, and tests for mediation.
Process Analysis
Effect size measures for mediation models
Equivalence of the Mediation, Confounding and Suppression Effect
SPSS and SAS procedures for estimating indirect effects in simple mediation models
A comparison of methods to test mediation and other intervening variable effects.
Mediation Analysis
Mediation in experimental and nonexperimental studies
The Elaboration Likelihood Model of Persuasion
Addressing Moderated Mediation Hypotheses
Beyond Baron and Kenny
The negative impact of perceiving discrimination on collective well‐being
Thought confidence as a determinant of persuasion
The moderator–mediator variable distinction in social psychological research
Asymptotic Confidence Intervals for Indirect Effects in Structural Equation Models
The moderator-mediator variable distinction in social psychological research
Establishing a causal chain
When moderation is mediated and mediation is moderated
Ease of retrieval as information
Ease of retrieval effects in social judgment
Reconsidering Baron and Kenny
| Unique citing works | 622 |
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| Citations per year | 36,59 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2026 (18) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 549 |