Conceptualizing and testing random indirect effects and moderated mediation in multilevel models: New procedures and recommendations

Psychological Methods

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 142-163

  Bauer, Daniel J ^a,b   Preacher, Kristopher J ^a,b   Gil, Karen M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Hierarchical linear model; Indirect effect; Mediation; Moderated mediation; Multilevel model

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; MEDICAL RECORD; MENTAL STRESS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEGRO; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PARASITOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; LINEAR MODELS; MEDICAL RECORDS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PSYCHOLOGY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 33745700800     PISSN: 1082989X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1082-989X.11.2.142     Document Type: Article

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