Psychology: Techniques and Application

Psychology: Techniques and Application ›› 2018, Vol. 6 ›› Issue (11): 665-676.doi: 10.16842/j.cnki.issn2095-5588.2018.11.004

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Three Approaches to Examine the mediating Effect:A View of Causal Effect Chain

  

  1. (1 College of Politics, National Defence University, Shanghai 201703, China) (2 Department of Psychology, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China) (3 School of Sociology and Psychology, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing 100081, China)
  • Online:2018-11-01 Published:2018-10-31

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Abstract: Theoretically, the mediating effect indicates the development of psychology. However, it is necessary to rethink whether the seemingly flourishing investigation of mediating effect is a real indicator of the development of psychological research. The mediating effect in psychology aims to investigate the psychological mechanism between independent variables and dependent variables. Therefore, a mediating effect contains three pairs of causal effect among independent variable, dependent variable, and mediating variable. There are three approaches can be used to examine the mediating effect: cross-sectional-measurement-approaches, trace-measurement-approaches, and experiment-design-approaches. Under the view of casual effect chain, the advantageous and disadvantageous of each approach were discussed.

Key words: mediating effect, casual effect, cross-sectional-measurement-approach, trace-measurement-approach, experiment-design-approach

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