A Note on Testing Mediated Effects in Structural Equation Models

Valente, Matthew J.; González, Oscar; Miočević, Milica; MacKinnon, David P.

doi:10.1177/0013164415618992

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“…In the analysis of the moderating effects, we opted for probing latent interaction from products of indicators using residual centering (see Geldhof et al, 2013). In the mediational analysis, the bias-corrected bootstrap method was used to detect mediated effects in SEM to avoid the problems arising from the assumptions about the distribution of the coefficient of interest (Valente et al, 2015).…”

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Social Support and Emotional Intelligence as Protective Resources for Well-Being in Moroccan Adolescents

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This study aimed to test a structural model to examine the protective role of psychosocial variables, such as social support, emotional intelligence and their interaction, on the cognitive dimension of subjective positive well-being (life satisfaction) and negative well-being (depression) in Moroccan adolescents. The participants consisted of 1277 students (571 men, 694 women and 12 missing values) with a mean age of 16.15 years ( SD = 2.22; range = 9 to 23) who attended 26 public schools in different territories of Morocco. These students were in secondary education ( n = 893) and high school ( n = 378) (6 missing values). The scales for measuring the variables of interest had to be adapted and validated as a previous step for the further proposal of a model of relations. Statistical analyses were conducted using structural equation modeling (SEM) to test the proposed model. The model that optimally adjusted the data confirmed the protective role of social support in the well-being of Moroccan adolescents. Consistent with previous studies, social support was directly related to well-being. However, it also modulated levels of satisfaction with life. Likewise, the inclusion of emotional intelligence as an additional protective factor contributed to the explanation of the well-being mechanisms in adolescents. In addition to direct associations with the levels of social support, satisfaction with life and depression (negative in the latter case), emotional intelligence participated in a complex chain affecting life satisfaction and life satisfaction affecting depression. Moreover, the interaction of emotional intelligence with social support was confirmed to determine levels of life satisfaction in adolescents. Specifically, social support multiplied the effects of the relationship between satisfaction with life and emotional intelligence in cases of moderate and high levels in Moroccan adolescents. This study fills a gap in the literature by adapting and further analyzing several scales with Moroccan samples of adolescents and by proposing and verifying a relational model that can help researchers and teachers to more precisely clarify these relations according to their context. The enhancement of protective factors, such as social support and emotional intelligence, will promote healthy youth development, thus creating healthier societies in the future.

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Social Support and Emotional Intelligence as Protective Resources for Well-Being in Moroccan Adolescents

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“…Moreover, to handle skewness resulting from the indirect effects (mediating effects) produced by the direct effects and their distributions, we used 5000 bootstrap replicates to estimate bias-corrected confidence intervals and p-values (Lockwood CM and DP. 1998;Valente et al 2016). Finally, to check our estimates, we ran Bayesian estimation via the Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm with a uniform prior (Byrne 2010; Kaplan and Depaoli 2012).…”

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Health and motivation as mediators of the effects of job demands, job control, job support, and role conflicts at work and home on sickness presenteeism and absenteeism

Aronsson

Hagberg

Björklund

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Int Arch Occup Environ Health

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Purpose The first objective was to contribute to a better understanding of the contrasting and paradoxical results in studies of work environment factors and sickness presence and sickness absence. A second objective was to examine if, and under what conditions, employees choose to replace sickness absence with sickness presence, i.e., so-called substitution. Methods The study utilizes a large body of cross-sectional questionnaire data (n = 130,161) gathered in Sweden from 2002 to 2007 in connection with a comprehensive health promotion initiative. Health and motivation were analyzed as mediators of the effects of five job factors, job control, job support, job demand, role conflict and “work to family conflict” on sickness presence and absence. Results The results concerning job demands indicate substitution in that increased job demands are associated with increased presenteeism and reduced absenteeism. The direct effect of higher job support was increased absenteeism, but via the health and motivation paths, the total effect of more social support was health-promoting and associated with a reduction in sickness absence and sickness presence. High job control emerged as the most pronounced health-promoting factor, reducing sickness presenteeism as well as absenteeism. More role conflicts and work-to-family conflicts were directly and indirectly associated with decreased health and increased absenteeism as well as presenteeism. earlier research. Conclusion The mediation analyzes shed light on some of the paradoxes in research on sickness presenteeism and sickness absenteeism, especially regarding job demands and job support. The substitution effect is important for workplace policy and occupational health practice.

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“…To test the mediational hypotheses (hypotheses 4 and 5), bootstrapped indirect effects were created using 10,000 bootstrapped samples (Valente et al, 2016). Lastly, a series of multigroup SEMs were utilized to examine hypothesis 6 (i.e.…”

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Current evolutionary adaptiveness of anxiety: Extreme phenotypes of anxiety predict increased fertility across multiple generations

Jacobson

Roche

2018

Journal of Psychiatric Research

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Objective: Although recent research has begun to examine the impact of elevated anxiety on evolutionary fitness, no prior research has examined anxiety across a continuum. Such research is important as the effect of traits across a continuum on fertility hold important implications for the levels and distribution of the traits in later generations. Method: In a three-generational sample (N = 2,657) the linear and quadratic relationship between anxiety and the number of children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren 15 years later was examined. Results: The findings suggested that anxiety had a positive quadratic relationship with the number of children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren 15 years later. These relationships were not significantly moderated by sex. Moreover, most of the variance between anxiety and the number of greatgrandchildren was explained by anxiety’s influence on the number of children and grandchildren, as opposed to anxiety having an independent direct impact on the number of great-grandchildren. Conclusion: These findings suggest that extreme values from the mean anxiety are associated with increased evolutionary fitness within the modern environment.

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A Note on Testing Mediated Effects in Structural Equation Models

Cited by 53 publications

References 33 publications

Social Support and Emotional Intelligence as Protective Resources for Well-Being in Moroccan Adolescents

Social Support and Emotional Intelligence as Protective Resources for Well-Being in Moroccan Adolescents

Health and motivation as mediators of the effects of job demands, job control, job support, and role conflicts at work and home on sickness presenteeism and absenteeism

Current evolutionary adaptiveness of anxiety: Extreme phenotypes of anxiety predict increased fertility across multiple generations

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