Book contents
- Handbook of Research Methods in Social and Personality Psychology
- Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology
- Handbook of Research Methods in Social and Personality Psychology
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 The Romance of Research Methods
- Part I Before You Dive In
- Part II Basic Design Considerations to Know, No Matter What Your Research Is About
- Part III Deep Dives on Methods and Tools for Testing Your Question of Interest
- Part IV Understanding What Your Data Are Telling You About Psychological Processes
- 20 Measurement
- 21 Advanced Psychometrics
- 22 Dealing with Repeated Measures
- 23 The Design and Analysis of Data from Dyads and Groups
- 24 Random Factors and Research Generalization
- 25 Combining Statistical and Causal Mediation Analysis
- 26 Mathematical and Computational Models
- 27 Meta-analysis
- Index
- References
25 - Combining Statistical and Causal Mediation Analysis
from Part IV - Understanding What Your Data Are Telling You About Psychological Processes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 December 2024
Book contents
- Handbook of Research Methods in Social and Personality Psychology
- Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology
- Handbook of Research Methods in Social and Personality Psychology
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 The Romance of Research Methods
- Part I Before You Dive In
- Part II Basic Design Considerations to Know, No Matter What Your Research Is About
- Part III Deep Dives on Methods and Tools for Testing Your Question of Interest
- Part IV Understanding What Your Data Are Telling You About Psychological Processes
- 20 Measurement
- 21 Advanced Psychometrics
- 22 Dealing with Repeated Measures
- 23 The Design and Analysis of Data from Dyads and Groups
- 24 Random Factors and Research Generalization
- 25 Combining Statistical and Causal Mediation Analysis
- 26 Mathematical and Computational Models
- 27 Meta-analysis
- Index
- References
Summary
Mediation analysis practices in social and personality psychology would benefit from the integration of practices from statistical mediation analysis, which is currently commonly implemented in social and personality psychology, and causal mediation analysis, which is not frequently used in psychology. In this chapter, I briefly describe each method on its own, then provide recommendations for how to integrate practices from each method to simultaneously evaluate statistical inference and causal inference as part of a single analysis. At the end of the chapter, I describe additional areas of recent development in mediation analysis that that social and personality psychologists should also consider adopting I order to improve the quality of inference in their mediation analysis: latent variables and longitudinal models. Ultimately, this chapter is meant to be a kind introduction to causal inference in the context of mediation with very practical recommendations for how one can implement these practices in one’s own research.
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