A comparison of methods to test mediation and other intervening variable effects.

By David P. MacKinnon, C. Lockwood, J. Hoffman, S. West, Virgil L. Sheets. Psychological methods, 2002

9,578 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Management Science and Operations Research, Statistics and Probability

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In Computer Networks and Communications

1. Kristopher J Preacher
2. Andrew F. Hayes
3. David P. MacKinnon
4. J. Selig
5. Daniel M. McNeish
6. Arnold B. Bakker
7. Davood Tofighi
8. Carl F. Falk

In Management Science and Operations Research

1. Andrew F. Hayes
2. Kristopher J Preacher
3. David P. MacKinnon
4. J. Edwards
5. Adam M. Grant
6. Amanda J. Fairchild
7. Bruno D. Zumbo
8. Carl F. Falk

In Statistics and Probability

1. Andrew F. Hayes
2. Kristopher J Preacher
3. David P. MacKinnon
4. Carl F. Falk
5. Mike W.-L. Cheung
6. Arnold B. Bakker
7. Daniel M. McNeish
8. Nicholas J. Rockwood

Citations in the corpus

• Me, a woman and a leader: Positive social identity and identity conflict (2014, methodology): “We then fit two additional nested models to improve fit and test our mediation hypotheses (MacKinnon et al., 2002).”
• MANAGING DIVERSITY: HOW ORGANIZATIONAL EFFORTS TO SUPPORT DIVERSITY MODERATE THE EFFECTS OF PERCEIVED RACIAL DISCRIMINATION ON AFFECTIVE COMMITMENT (2010, methodology): “Sobel’s (1982) product of coefficients formula tests for indirect effects and has been recommended when mediation cannot be fulfilled because Step 1 in Baron and Kenny’s method is not supported (Collins et al., 1998; MacKinnon et al., 2002; Shrout & Bolger, 2002).”
• Beyond Baron and Kenny: Statistical Mediation Analysis in the New Millennium (2009, neutral): “MacKinnon, 2007; MacKinnon, Lockwood, Hoffman, et al., 2002 ).”
• Networking behaviour, graduate employability: a social capital perspective (2017, methodology): “Bootstrapping is considered a better approach for testing indirect effects than the traditional Sobel test because it imposes no assumptions about the distribution of indirect effects (Cheung and Lau, 2008; MacKinnon et al., 2002).”
• The Effect of Product Variety and Inventory Levels on Retail Store Sales: A Longitudinal Study (2010, background): “…an independent variable causes an intervening variable, which then causes the dependent variable, are used in various disciplines and the intervening variable—percentage of phantom products in our model—is typically called a mediator (Baron and Kenny 1986, MacKinnon et al. 2002, Venkatraman 1989).”
• New developments in latent variable panel analyses of longitudinal data (2007, background): “The causal steps approach suffers from lower power than alternative methods (MacKinnon et al., 2002) and does not address the hypothesis of mediation directly.”