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Korean Journal of Psychology: General

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Effects of skewness of the third variable on estimation of the mediation effect in the moderating mediator model

Korean Journal of Psychology: General / Korean Journal of Psychology: General, (P)1229-067X; (E)2734-1127
2014, v.33 no.2, pp.491-506


& (2014). Effects of skewness of the third variable on estimation of the mediation effect in the moderating mediator model. Korean Journal of Psychology: General, 33(2), 491-506.
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A model with a third variable that has both mediation and moderation effects, i.e., the moderating mediator model, can be used to determine whether the third variable has mediation effect, moderation effect, or both in a causal relationship between two variables. Because this model is analyzed base on a moderation model, nonessential collinearity between the third variable and the interaction term may increase the standard error of estimation for the second path of the mediation effect and the increased standard error generates underestimation of statistical significance of mediation effect over and beyond the moderation effect of the third variable. Although researchers may use mean-centering on the predictor and the third variable to decrease the collinearity, degree of the decrease depends on the bivariate normality of the explanatory variables. The current study investigated how much nonessential collinearity and standard error of the estimation for the second path of the mediation effect increased as the amount of deviation from bivariate normality of the explanatory variables increased by manipulating skewness of the third variable. We found that high skewness of the third variable produced substantial amount of nonessential collinearity even with mean-centered variables, which negatively influenced on the estimation of the mediation effect in the moderating mediator model. We also found that increase in sample size attenuated the negative effects. The results suggest that a large number of samples are required in applications of the moderating mediator model with a highly skewed third variable.

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moderating mediator model, mean centering, collinearity, skewness, moderation model, 조절매개변인 모형, 평균중심화, 공선성, 왜도, 조절모형

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