Reconsidering Baron and Kenny: Myths and Truths about Mediation Analysis

By Xinshu Zhao, John G. Lynch, Qimei Chen. 2010

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Subfields: Information Systems and Management, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Social Psychology

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Customer engagement in a Facebook brand community (2012, methodology): “The mediation analysis results (“a £ b”) in Table III further reveal that CEB and TEB have a positive influence on satisfaction through entertainment benefits, and a negative influence on satisfaction through social benefits, as the confidence intervals do not include zero (Zhou et al., 2010).”
Emotion regulation strategy mediates both positive and negative relationships between music uses and well-being (2014, methodology): “For all analyses, the recommendations of Zhao et al. (2010) were adopted, which in brief, advise the following: (1) If the direct effect ‘c’ only is significant, there is no evidence for mediation, (2) if the indirect effect ‘a x b’ is significant in the absence of a direct effect ‘c’, then there…”
Warmth and conformity: The effects of ambient temperature on product preferences and financial decisions☆ (2014, methodology): “A model with a set of mediators including social closeness, perceived validity, and liking was run by bootstrapping method (Hayes, 2013; Zhao et al., 2010; based on 5000 samples).”
Mediation Analysis in Social Psychology: Current Practices and New Recommendations (2011, background): “Abandon the emphasis on the significance of c and c¢ In accord with others (e.g., Hayes, 2009; MacKinnon et al., 2000; Shrout & Bolger, 2002; Zhao et al., 2010), we submit that the requirement for a significant total X fi Y effect prior to examining indirect effects be abandoned.”
Promoting customer brand engagement and brand loyalty through customer brand identification and value congruity (2018, methodology): “To test this mediation, this study follows the suggestions of Zhao et al. (2010), which performed a full analysis of the covariance structural model using bootstrap method.”
Regression-based statistical mediation and moderation analysis in clinical research: Observations, recommendations, and implementation. (2017, background): “…disseminated in various fields (see e.g., Cerin & MacKinnon, 2009; Hayes, 2009; Rucker, Preacher, Tormala, & Petty, 2011; Shrout & Bolger, 2002; Zhao, Lynch, and Chen, 2010), though the practice of conditioning a mediation analysis on a statistically significant total effect of X remains…”