Statistical control in correlational studies: 10 essential recommendations for organizational researchers.

By Thomas E. Becker, Guclu Atinc, J. Breaugh, Kevin D. Carlson, J. Edwards, Paul E. Spector. 2016

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Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science, Statistics and Probability

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Egoistic norms, organizational identification, and the perceived ethicality of unethical pro-organizational behavior: A moral maturation perspective (2020, methodology): “Following guidelines on the use of control variables (Becker et al., 2016), we carefully considered which variables would be theoretically important to use as controls.”
Access-Based Services as Substitutes for Material Possessions: The Role of Psychological Ownership (2020, methodology): “For each setting, we present the results without and with covariates (Becker et al. 2016).”
Individual ambidexterity: the duality of exploration and exploitation and its relationship with innovative performance (2017, methodology): “Including the controls did not change the pattern of results substantially, and therefore we report the results without control variables as these results are more easily interpreted (Becker et al., 2016).”
Perceived organizational support and employees’ well-being: the mediating role of organizational dehumanization (2017, methodology): “Following Becker (2005) and Becker et al. (2015) recommendations, we then performed1 our analyses with and without these control variables.”
Control Variables in Leadership Research: A Qualitative and Quantitative Review (2017, background): “…hypotheses, (b) standard descriptive statistics and correlations are reported for control variables, (c) control variables are subjected to the same standards of reliability as other variables, and (d) researchers openly compare results with and without control variables (Becker et al., 2016).”
Take a break! Benefits of sleep and short breaks for daily work engagement (2017, methodology): “We thus followed recommendations about using control variables in organizational research (Becker et al., 2016; Spector & Brannick, 2011) and present all analyses with and without the control variables.”
On the Nuisance of Control Variables in Regression Analysis (2020, background): “In a recent paper, Becker et al. (2016) provides a more cautionary recommendation regarding generalizing from control variable estimates if it involves out-of-sample extrapolation, but otherwise considers it to be appropriate.”
Surveying the forest: A meta-analysis, moderator investigation, and future-oriented discussion of the antecedents of voluntary employee turnover (2018, background): “Controlling for these latter demographics might therefore be more routinely appropriate (Becker et al., 2016; Bernerth & Aguinis, 2016).”
Teachers’ Job Satisfaction and Work Performance (2019, methodology): “riables by collecting numerical data which are analyzed using statistically based methods [39].”