The Importance of Indirect Effects in Media Effects Research: Testing for Mediation in Structural Equation Modeling

By R. Lance Holbert, Michael T. Stephenson. 2003

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Subfields: Health, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Beyond Baron and Kenny: Statistical Mediation Analysis in the New Millennium (2009, background): “Although the empirical M-test (also known as the distribution of products approach) is advocated by Holbert and Stephenson (2003) as ‘‘the best option available to media effects scholars’’ (p. 566), it suffers the major weakness that it is somewhat cumbersome to conduct without the assistance of…”
Helpful or Harmful? How Frequent Repetition Affects Perceived Statement Credibility (2013, methodology): “3 For this reason, we used a linear structural equation model that fulfills both criteria (Cheung & Lau, 2008; Holbert & Stephenson, 2003).”
Asymptotic and resampling strategies for assessing and comparing indirect effects in multiple mediator models (2008, methodology): “There are examples in the literature where investigators fixed these residual covariances to zero (e.g., Holbert & Stephenson, 2003; Rutter & Hine, 2005), a practice that we do not endorse.”
Examining the Role of Trait Reactance and Sensation Seeking on Perceived Threat, State Reactance, and Reactance Restoration (2008, background): “Media effects researchers have encouraged examining indirect effects to get at the Reactance B. L. Quick & M. T. Stephenson 454 Human Communication Research 34 (2008) 448–476 ª 2008 International Communication Association ‘‘why’’ question in quantitative research (Holbert & Stephenson, 2003).”
A Social Skill Account of Problematic Internet Use (2005, methodology): “…effects tests indicate that the distribution of product coefficients test has greater statistical power and does a better job of maintaining an accurate Type I error rate than other available procedures (MacKinnon, Lockwood, Hoffman, West, & Sheets, 1998; also see Holbert & Stephenson, 2003).”
Media Effects: Theory and Research. (2016, background): “Especially in political and health communication, it has repeatedly been found that effects of media use on political and health behavior are mediated by certain beliefs and attitudes (Holbert & Stephenson 2003).”
Contemporary approaches to assessing mediation in communication research. (2008, methodology): “Judd and Kenny (1981) and Holmbeck (1997) suggest a method of testing mediation hypotheses that takes advantage of a key feature of structural equation modeling—the ability to constrain model parameters to fixed values.”
Text or Talk? Social Anxiety, Loneliness, and Divergent Preferences for Cell Phone Use (2007, unknown): “We do this by applying Baron and Kenny’s 21,22 causal step test for evaluating mediating variables, by determining whether the connections between loneliness and social anxiety and preferences for texting and talking are eliminated—or at least significantly reduced—when beliefs concerning the…”
Mediational Inferences in Organizational Research (2008, unknown): “…and pediatric psychology (e.g., Holmbeck, 1997), organizational behavior (OB; James, Muliak, & Brett, 2006), drug prevention (e.g., MacKinnon & Dwyer, 1993), consumer behavior (e.g., Iacobucci, Saldanha, & Deng, 2007), and broadcasting (Holbert & Stephenson, 2003), to name just a few.”
Drama Theory and Entertainment Education: Exploring the Effects of a Radio Drama on Behavioral Intentions to Limit HIV Transmission in Ethiopia (2007, methodology): “CFI estimates above .90 and RMSEA estimates below .08, and SRMR below .09 are considered acceptable for sample sizes below 250 (Holbert & Stephenson, 2003).”
Theory and measurement of generalized problematic Internet use: A two-step approach (2010, methodology): “Holbert and Stephenson (2003) explain that the product of coefficients procedure converts parameter estimates of each path in the proposed mediated relationship into a standardized z-score and then computes the product of the two zscores that constitute the mediated effect.”
Understanding and Using Mediators and Moderators (2008, methodology): “Maxwell (2003), Holbert and Stephenson (2003) , and Kenny and Judd (1984).”
The Impact of Sexually Objectifying Media Exposure on Negative Body Emotions and Sexual Self-Perceptions: Investigating the Mediating Role of Body Self-Consciousness (2007, background): “First, the mediational hypotheses (H3 & H5) focused on identifying and assessing potential relations that exist among exposure to sexually objectifying media and the types of effects that stem from these relations (Holbert & Stephenson, 2003).”