Seven deadly myths of testing moderation in organizational research

By J. Edwards. 2008

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Subfields: Management Science and Operations Research, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Radiological and Ultrasound Technology

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Beyond a tandem analysis of SEM and PROCESS: Use of PLS-SEM for mediation analyses! (2020, background): “Edwards (2009) even refers to the notion that measurement error can be ignored as one of “seven deadly myths of testing moderation” (p. 143).”
Ethical leadership and job performance in China: : The roles of workplace friendships and traditionality (2013, methodology): “To avoid multicollinearity problems, we centred the variables used in interaction terms (Aiken &West, 1991; Edwards, 2009).”
Rocking the Boat but Keeping It Steady: The Role of Emotion Regulation in Employee Voice (2013, methodology): “I computed the reliability of the interaction term using the formula specified by Edwards (2008).”
Some Common Myths About Centering Predictor Variables in Moderated Multiple Regression and Polynomial Regression (2012, background): “Edwards (2009) provides an example: If X1 and X2 are uncorrelated and have reliabilities of .70, the reliability of X1X2 is only .49.”
Cash is surprisingly valuable as a strategic asset (2014, background): “However, it has no meaningful effect on the estimation or interpretation of regression equations that contain these terms (Edwards, 2008).”
Nonlinear Transformations in Organizational Research: Possible Problems and Potential Solutions (2018, methodology): “However, the quality of measurement of control variables, including their reliability, is as essential to a study’s analyses and results as are the metrics for other variables (Atinc, Simmering, & Kroll, 2012; Becker et al., 2016; Edwards, 2008b).”
Citizens’ Perceptions of Flood Hazard Adjustments (2013, methodology): “To determine whether there was an interaction between the hazard adjustment attributes and attribute importance (H2a and 2b), we conducted a moderated regression analysis of adoption intentions onto these two variables consistent with the recommendations of Edwards (2009). We first constructed scale”
Ethical leadership and employee success: Examining the roles of psychological empowerment and emotional exhaustion (2018, background): “Since these findings indicate that the effects of ethical leadership on psychological empowerment vary across levels of employee emotional exhaustion, we heed the advice to disregard the main effects (Aguinis, Edwards, & Bradley, 2017; Edwards, 2009; Gardner, Harris, Li, Kirkman, & Mathieu, 2017) an”
The Mediation Myth (2015, background): “This pattern of moderated mediation is described by Edwards and Lambert (2007) as first-stage moderation. There are other patterns, such as second-stage moderation where just the second path of an indirect effect depends on an external variable, but all kinds of moderated mediation refer to conditio”
Top management team faultlines and firm performance: Examining the CEO-TMT interface (2017, unknown): “13 (see Table 1), we ran supplementary analysis controlling for the squared effects of the main predictor and the CEO career variety moderator (Cortina, 1993; Edwards, 2008).”
Integrating Moderation and Mediation (2016, methodology): “Figures 2a through 2d illustrate the models according to Hayes’s (2013) format on the left side and according to Edwards and Lambert’s (2007) format on the right side.”
Unraveling the “passion orchestra” in academia (2016, background): “In addition, Edwards (2009) specifies that the risk of Type I error for testing a moderation X*Z may increase as the moderation can be inferred when curvilinearity is responsible for the variance explained by the moderation term.”
Are workaholics born or made? Relations of workaholism with person characteristics and overwork climate. (2014, background): “limitation, however, as Edwards (2009) argued that product terms do not”
More than meets the eye: The role of subordinates' self-perceptions in leader categorization processes☆ (2011, background): “Also, we followed the recommendations of Edwards (2008) and Ganzach (1997) who argue that interaction analyses should always include the quadratic terms of the predictors to among other reasons check whether curvilinear relationships are not falsely identified as interactions.”
Mirror, mirror on my boss’s wall: Engaged enactment’s moderating role on the relationship between perceived narcissistic supervision and work outcomes (2012, background): “More recently, Edwards (2008) encouraged scholars to consider nonlinear terms as a general rule when conducting moderated regression analyses.”