On the Overuse and Misuse of Mediation Analysis: It May Be a Matter of Timing
By Charlotte Ursula Tate. 2015
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Subfields: Management Science and Operations Research, Statistics and Probability
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In Management Science and Operations Research
- Rex Bryan Kline
- Malte Friese
- Alan K. Goodboy
- Shrija Dirghangi
- Shelley R. Hart
- Alexander E Wong
- Luke Plonsky
- F. Oswald
In Statistics and Probability
- Alan K. Goodboy
- Sarah Herrmann
- Jessica E. Bodford
- Robert M. Adelman
- Virginia S. Y. Kwan
- Oliver Graudejus
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- Rex Bryan Kline
Citations in the corpus
- Self-concept clarity mediates the effects of adverse childhood experiences on adult suicide behavior, depression, loneliness, perceived stress, and life distress (2018, methodology): “Modeling self-esteem with its pathways independent of self-concept clarity was consistent with the Hyman-Tate principle (Tate, 2015) that the two variables should not form a sequential chain (e.”
- Breaking the Habit: On the Highly Habitualized Nature of Meat Consumption and Implementation Intentions as One Effective Way of Reducing It (2018, background): “However, correlational support of course does not establish causality, and there is now a growing literature on the issues related to causal inference based on correlational analyses, structural equation modeling, and especially mediation analyses (see Grice, Cohn, Ramsey, & Chaney, 2015; Tate, 2015”
- Statistical and Practical Concerns With Published Communication Research Featuring Structural Equation Modeling (2017, background): “psychological variables, such as anxiety and depression, as cause versus outcome without an ironclad rationale (Tate, 2015).”
- The Effects of a Female Role Model on Academic Performance and Persistence of Women in STEM Courses (2016, background): “…of modularity (Kline, 2015), emphasis on parametercentered rather than person-centered analyses (Grice et al., 2015), and use of mediation in cross-sectional research without clear time precedence (Kline, 2015; Kraemer, Wilson, Fairburn, & Agras, 2002; MacKinnon & Fairchild, 2009; Tate, 2015).”