Examining mediation effects may be useful in order to understand the mechanisms involved in long term changes in couple relationships.
Not exact matches
To
examine mechanisms accounting for these relationships, we ran a path model including the expected
mediation and moderation
effects of frequency and enjoyment of collaboration on the relationship between couple's percentage of shared selves and well - being.
Such an approach is ideal for
examining mediation models that include repeated measures, and given that the model is estimated in a single equation, one can directly estimate the covariance of the random
effects that are encompassed in different Level 1 and Level 2 models.
Therefore, the purposes of this study were to: (1) longitudinally assess whether adolescent PA at age 15 mediates the
effect of parental encouragement for PA at age 15 for predicting adolescent body satisfaction at age 16, while controlling for body mass index (BMI), and (2)
examine the extent that adolescent sex moderated the
mediation of adolescent PA on the association between parental encouragement for PA and body satisfaction.
Thus, in each
mediation analysis we
examined the direct and indirect
effects of each parent's psychopathology symptoms while controlling for the other parent's psychopathology symptoms, and the same is true for the direct
effects of fathers» and mothers» emotion talk.
Lastly, a test for moderated
mediation was used to
examine the moderating
effect of sex on this association [37].
Estimation of
mediation effects was performed by using the Monte Carlo method for assessing
mediation (MacKinnon et al., 2004; Selig and Preacher, 2008; Preacher and Selig, 2012), which consisted of
examining Monte Carlo confidence intervals (CIs) of indirect
effects.
First, the data in this study were cross-sectional, which prevented us from
examining true
mediation effects.
Mediation models used bootstrapping methodology and stratified models
examined effect modification.
Using integrative data analysis (IDA) methods applied to trials, the study
examined intervention moderation and
mediation effects on internalizing symptoms.