A Meditation on Mediation: Evidence That Structural Equations Models Perform Better Than Regressions

By Dawn Iacobucci, Neela A Saldanha, Xiaoyang Deng. 2007

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology

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In Applied Psychology

1. Nicholas J. Rockwood
2. Joseph F. Hair
3. Marko Sarstedt
4. Andrew F. Hayes
5. Kristina Rennekamp
6. W. B. Elliott
7. Brian J. White
8. A. Montoya

In Developmental and Educational Psychology

1. Nicholas J. Rockwood
2. Kristina Rennekamp
3. W. B. Elliott
4. Brian J. White
5. A. Montoya
6. Martin Eisend
7. Maxwell K. Hsu
8. Tina Kiefer

In Social Psychology

1. Neuza Ribeiro
2. Andrew F. Hayes
3. Nicholas J. Rockwood
4. Martin Eisend
5. Arménio Rego
6. Miguel Pina e Cunha
7. Marko Sarstedt
8. Joseph F. Hair

Citations in the corpus

• Customer experiences in the age of artificial intelligence (2020, background): “Mediation analysis establishes whether a relationship between independent variables (predictors) and a dependent variable is direct or indirect (Iacobucci, Saldanha, & Deng, 2007).”
• Does concrete language in disclosures increase willingness to invest? (2014, positive): “…ir ec ti o n al p re d ic ti o n s Baron and Kenny (1986), more recent evidence supports the superiority of structural equations modeling over regression analysis to test for mediation (e.g., Iacobucci et al. 2007).15 Regardless of method, the intuition behind testing for mediation is the same.”
• 'Employees response to corporate social responsibility: Exploring the role of employees' collectivist orientation' (2014, background): “These results indicate partial mediation for employees and community, and complete mediation for consumer-based CSR actions (Iacobucci et al., 2007).”
• Research Note - Why Following Friends Can Hurt You: An Exploratory Investigation of the Effects of Envy on Social Networking Sites among College-Age Users (2015, methodology): “To follow this approach, we estimated another extended PLS model (Iacobucci et al. 2007) that included the direct paths (i.”
• Brand love is all around: loyalty behaviour, active and passive social media users (2020, methodology): “We use structural equation modelling with (EQS 6.1) to assess the classic mediation test of Baron and Kenny (1986), following the recommendations of Iacobucci, Saldanha, and Deng (2007).”