Abstract
This article presents an overview of statistical mediation analysis and its application to psychosomatic medicine research. The article begins with a description of the major approaches to mediation analysis and an evaluation of the strengths and limits of each. Emphasis is placed on longitudinal mediation models, and an application using latent growth modeling is presented. The article concludes with a description of recent developments in mediation analysis and suggestions for the use of mediation for future work in psychosomatic medicine research.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 29-43 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| Journal | Psychosomatic Medicine |
| Volume | 73 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 2011 |
Keywords
- indirect effect
- mechanism
- mediation analysis
- statistical mediation
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Applied Psychology
- Psychiatry and Mental health