Total-effect test is superfluous for establishing complementary mediation

Jiang, Yingkai; Zhao, Xinshu; Zhu, Lixing; Liu, Jun S.

doi:10.5705/ss.202019.0150

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“…The results from bootstrapping showed that the indirect effect of information sharing on social media on life satisfaction via informational reciprocity was statistically significant, as the 95% bias-corrected confidence intervals (CI) did not contain zero (CI of 0.003 and 0.081). The statistically significant direct path and acknowledged indirect path form complementary mediation (Jiang et al, 2021 ; Zhao et al, 2010 ). This finding provided support for H2.…”

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"Nice You Share in Return": Informational Sharing, Reciprocal Sharing, and Life Satisfaction Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

Liu

Huang²,

Zhan³

et al. 2022

Soc Indic Res

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Social media become an important space where people receive and share up-to-date health-related information during the rapid global spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). While information sharing in social media has been shown to improve relations, reduce stress, and enhance life satisfaction, little is known about reciprocal sharing. Situated in COVID-19 pandemic, this study conceptualizes information sharing as a communication process during which sharers expect the receivers to reciprocate, while receivers feel obligated to return the favor. Building upon social exchange theory and studies on social media sharing, the study tested a model of moderated mediation in which sharing of COVID-19 information was predicted to enhance life satisfaction by encouraging reciprocal sharing, i.e., information reciprocity. Subjective norms, attitudes, and perceived usefulness of the information was predicted to moderate the mediation. The hypothesized mediation was supported by data from a survey of 511 online participants in China. Furthermore, the indirect effect appeared stronger among the respondents who found the information more useful, reported more positive attitude, or perceived more subjective norms. The findings suggest that expected reciprocation may be an important incentive for social sharing, and received reciprocation may be a central part of the mechanism through which sharing benefits the sharer. Policymakers and communicators may need to take information reciprocity into consideration when designing health information campaign to confront communal threats.

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"Nice You Share in Return": Informational Sharing, Reciprocal Sharing, and Life Satisfaction Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

Liu

Huang²,

Zhan³

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Soc Indic Res

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“…According to research conducted within the service industry, more than 80% of problems linked to the work environment may greatly influence people's desire to resign (Jiang et al, 2021) and seek employment opportunities somewhere else (Lu et al, 2017). An employee with high employability will believe that he is entitled to advancement in his career, and if he does not receive it, he may resign (Santi et al, 2020).…”

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“…According to research conducted within the service industry, more than 80% of problems linked to the work environment may greatly influence employee's desire to resign (Jiang et al, 2021) and seek employment opportunities somewhere else (Lu et al, 2017) because they experience job dilemmas, ranging from the presence of overload, emotional fatigue, great psychological distress, and other psychological phenomena that may also hinder their productivity (Parker & Liao, 2016). Turnover intention may occur because the work environment has a psychological influence on employee well-being (Donley, 2021) that may stimulate or even prevent employee from working productively (Anasi, 2020).…”

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Workplace Bullying and Supervisor Support Effects on Turnover Intention: The Work-family Conflict Mediation

Pertiwi

Satrya

2022

IC-EBGC

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The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between workplace bullying, supervisor support, and turnover intention that is mediated by work-family conflict among banking employees in Indonesia. A quantitative method study with a total of 200 banking employees as respondents was conducted in Indonesia. Structural equation modeling was used to analyze the relationship between workplace bullying, supervisor support, and turnover intention, with the mediation of work-family conflict. Workplace bullying increased work-family conflict and turnover intention among Indonesian banking employees. However, it was found that supervisor support does not influence the increase in work-family conflict and turnover intention. The research presented in this paper is mainly limited to databases that were searched due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Among the quantitative articles from the databases, there were few supporting works of literature accessible on workplace bullying in Asia because research on workplace bullying is uncommon. Using the findings of this research, practitioners may become aware of various behavioral and psychological aspects that may influence employee turnover intention and prevent them from occurring within the organization. This paper itself builds on the concept of Yoo and Lee (2018)’s work because of its focus in Asia. The present results of this research also prove that the trust and relationship between supervisor and subordinate can help retain employees, especially those who experience personal problems. Keywords: Workplace bullying; Supervisor support; Work-family conflict; Turnover intention; Relationships

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“…Hypotheses 1 and 2, together, imply a complementary mediation in which the direct and indirect paths are both positive [ 37 ]. It has been shown mathematically that the total-effect test for complementary mediation always passes the p < α threshold [ 38 ], which means that Hypotheses 1 and 2 also imply Hypotheses 3 below. H3: IE is positively associated with HEC without controlling for BC.…”

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“…Hypotheses 1 and 2 together imply a complementary mediation, which is defined as a model for which the direct and indirect paths point in the same direction and both pass the statistical threshold p < α, where α is traditionally pre-set at 0.05, 0.01, 0.001, etc. [ 37 , 38 ]. H1 and H2 both predict positive effects.…”

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Effect of information encounter on concerns over healthy eating– mediated through body comparison and moderated by body mass index or body satisfaction

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Background Understanding factors that influence healthy or unhealthy eating can inform intervention strategies. This study ascertained whether and how unintentional exposure to food and nutrition information influenced healthy eating concerns. The study tested body comparison, body satisfaction, and body mass index as three mechanisms that potentially link food information encounter, commonly known as information scanning, to healthy eating concerns. Methods A sample of 440 online participants (mean age = 29.15 years) was used to investigate: (1) how unintentional exposure to food and nutrition information, i.e., information encounter (IE), affects healthy eating concerns (HEC); (2) how the effect of IE on HEC is mediated by body comparison (BC); (3) how the paths of the mediation model are moderated by body satisfaction (BS) or body mass index (BMI). Results The findings show a positive and sizable total effect of IE on HEC – a whole-scale increase in information encounter is associated with a substantial increase in healthy eating concerns by 15 percentage points (bp = 0.150). BC is found to mediate the effect of IE on HEC in an all-positive complementary mediation. Both the indirect and the direct-and-remainder paths show sizable effects. The mediated path contributes about 20% of the total effect between IE and HEC (cp = 20%), while the direct-and-remainder path contributes the rest (cp = 80%). BS was found to moderate the relationship between IE and BC, the first leg of the mediation. The moderation effect is large – the effect of IE on BC is much smaller on the highly and the moderately satisfied than on the lowly satisfied (slope differential bp = -.60). BMI was found to moderate the direct-and-remainder effect of IE on HEC, controlling BC. That is, the effect of IE on HEC, after filtering out the mediated effect through BC, is much larger for those with high or low BMI than those with healthy BMI (slope differential bp = .32). Conclusions Exposure, even if unintentional, to food and nutrition information is an important predictor of HEC. BC, BS, and BMI are important factors that help to explain the process through which information affects behaviors.

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Total-effect test is superfluous for establishing complementary mediation

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"Nice You Share in Return": Informational Sharing, Reciprocal Sharing, and Life Satisfaction Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

"Nice You Share in Return": Informational Sharing, Reciprocal Sharing, and Life Satisfaction Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

Workplace Bullying and Supervisor Support Effects on Turnover Intention: The Work-family Conflict Mediation

Effect of information encounter on concerns over healthy eating– mediated through body comparison and moderated by body mass index or body satisfaction

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