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Area of Science:

  • Causal inference
  • Statistical modeling
  • Quantitative psychology

Background:

  • Understanding treatment effects requires examining *how*, *for whom*, and *where* they occur.
  • Causal moderated mediation analysis assesses treatment effect heterogeneity across individual and contextual factors.
  • Existing methods are limited by statistical model dependencies, especially for binary or nonlinear outcomes.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a general framework for causal moderated mediation effects under the potential outcomes framework.
  • To address limitations of existing methods concerning binary/nonlinear outcomes and causal arguments.
  • To provide practical tools for empirical researchers to implement and assess moderated mediation.

Main Methods:

  • Developed general definitions, identification, estimation, and sensitivity analysis for causal moderated mediation effects.
  • Utilized the potential outcomes framework for robust causal inference.
  • Created the R package 'moderate.mediation' for user-friendly implementation.

Main Results:

  • Established a unified approach to causal moderated mediation, overcoming limitations of traditional methods.
  • Enabled causal arguments by clarifying assumptions and providing sensitivity analysis.
  • Demonstrated the utility of the methods and R package with real-world data.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed framework offers a comprehensive solution for analyzing moderated mediation effects.
  • The 'moderate.mediation' R package facilitates accessible and rigorous causal moderated mediation analysis.
  • This work enhances the ability of researchers to investigate treatment effect heterogeneity.