Bias in cross-sectional analyses of longitudinal mediation.

By S. Maxwell, David A. Cole. Psychological methods, 2007

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Longitudinal Research: The Theory, Design, and Analysis of Change (2010, background): “Such understanding leads to the realization that cross-sectional research will often provide little insight into how a variable will change over time and may quite often lead to inaccurate conclusions (Maxwell & Cole, 2007).”
The Influence of Project Commitment and Team Commitment on the Relationship between Trust and Knowledge Sharing in Project Teams (2017, background): “Despite noteworthy questioning of the accuracy of a cross-sectional approach for assessing mediation (Maxwell & Cole, 2007; Maxwell, Cole, & Mitchell, 2011), most studies involving mediation have used cross-sectional data (Mitchell & Maxwell, 2013).”
Transformational Leadership and Well-Being in Sports: The Mediating Role of Need Satisfaction (2014, background): “In particular, longitudinal research that addresses the mediating processes more accurately is warranted (Maxwell & Cole, 2007).”
Parent–Adolescent Sexual Communication and Adolescents’ Sexual Behaviors: A Conceptual Model and Systematic Review (2016, background): “Such effects are best supported by temporally-ordered data, given that a mediated process assumes the passage of time as a sequence of events unfolds (Maxwell and Cole 2007), but this information is not provided by cross sectional data.”
Happiness, inspiration and the fully functioning person: Separating hedonic and eudaimonic well-being in the workplace (2012, background): “For instance, multilevel modeling permits the spacing between time points to vary for each person, which is beneficial for the handling of missing responses (Maxwell & Cole, 2007 ).”
Feeling Good Makes Us Stronger: How Team Resilience Mediates the Effect of Positive Emotions on Team Performance (2016, background): “However, team resilience is illustrated as a possible mechanism that links emotional states and behavioral outcomes, although it needs to be confirmed by longitudinal data (Maxwell and Cole 2007).”
Clarifying the Concept of Well-Being: Psychological Need Satisfaction as the Common Core Connecting Eudaimonic and Subjective Well-Being (2019, methodology): “…motives/activities and SWB is found in three-wave fully longitudinal research studies as currently recommended for mediation testing (e.g., Maxwell & Cole, 2007; Maxwell, Cole, & Mitchell, 2011) that have shown how various T1 variables predict changes in SWB at T3, mediated by changes in…”
Over Time Effects of Role Stress on Psychological Strain among Malaysian Public University Academics (2011, background): “However, most studies to investigate stress process mainly based on cross-sectional design (Maxwell & Cole, 2007).”
Self-esteem and the quality of romantic relationships (2016, background): “Therefore, future research on the mediating mechanisms should use longitudinal designs, which allows disentangling the temporal order of predictor, mediator, and outcome (Cole & Maxwell, 2003; Maxwell & Cole, 2007).”
Transitioning From High School to College (2013, methodology): “Because we controlled for initial levels of all our constructs, these results can be viewed as predicting change over time (Maxwell & Cole, 2007).”