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Advances in testing the statistical significance of mediation effects.

2006/07/01 by Brent Mallinckrodt, W. Todd Abraham, Meifen Wei +1 · 38 citations
Psychology · Decision Sciences · Mathematics · #Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development #Psychometric Methodologies and Testing #Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference

paper · doi:10.1037/0022-0167.53.3.372

Abstract

P. A. Frazier, A. P. Tix, and K. E. Barron (2004) highlighted a normal theory method popularized by R. M. Baron and D. A. Kenny (1986) for testing the statistical significance of indirect effects (i.e., mediator variables) in multiple regression contexts. However, simulation studies suggest that this method lacks statistical power relative to some other approaches. The authors describe an alternative developed by P. E. Shrout and N. Bolger (2002) based on bootstrap resampling methods. An example and step-by-step guide for performing bootstrap mediation analyses are provided. The test of joint significance is also briefly described as an alternative to both the normal theory and bootstrap methods. The relative advantages and disadvantages of each approach in terms of precision in estimating confidence intervals of indirect effects, Type I error, and Type II error are discussed.

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