Mediation

Question 1

What is mediation analysis?

Answer 1

Mediation analysis helps decompose the causal relationship between variables into direct and indirect effects

Question 2

What does mediation analysis allow researchers to understand?

Answer 2

How X impacts Y through M

Question 3

What are the Baron and Kenny steps used for?

Answer 3

Conducting mediation analysis

Question 4

What is one advantage of mediation analysis?

Answer 4

Explains how an independent variable influences an outcome

Question 5

What is another advantage of mediation analysis?

Answer 5

Helps identify key mechanisms for intervention

Question 6

Fill in the blank: Mediation explains how or why an independent variable (XXX) influences a dependent variable (YYY) through a mediator (MMM).

Answer 6

[XXX], [YYY], [MMM]

Question 7

What does the Sobel test assume?

Answer 7

Normality of ab

Question 8

What is a limitation of the Sobel test?

Answer 8

Sensitive to skewed sampling distributions

Question 9

How does the reliability of the Sobel test compare to bootstrapping?

Answer 9

Less reliable, especially for smaller datasets

Question 10

True or False: Mediation analysis can only be used with large sample sizes.

Answer 10

False

Question 11

What does mediation analysis help to identify?

Answer 11

Key mechanisms for intervention

Question 12

In what year was the paper ‘Mediation analysis’ published in the Annual Review of Psychology?

Answer 12

2007

Question 13

Name one reference that discusses mediation analysis.

Answer 13

MacKinnon, D. P., Fairchild, A. J., & Fritz, M. S. (2007).

Question 14

What is the primary focus of Hayes’s 2013 book?

Answer 14

Introduction to Mediation, Moderation, and Conditional Process Analysis

Question 15

What is the website for David Kenny’s mediation resources?

Answer 15

http://davidakenny.net/cm/mediate.htm