用两个调解器进行因果调解分析:在各种多个调解器设置中估计总和自然效应的全面指南
Jesse Gervais1, Geneviève Lefebvre1, Erica E M Moodie2
1Department of Mathematics, Universite du Quebec a Montreal.
Psychological methods
|October 16, 2025
概括
本教程指导研究人员通过使用多个调解者进行因果调解分析. 它为理解心理研究中直接和间接影响提供了实用工具和代码.
科学领域:
- 心理学 心理学 心理学
- 因果推理因果推理
- 统计方法 统计方法
背景情况:
- 在心理学中,调解分析对于理解独立变量如何通过调解者影响结果至关重要.
- 传统的方法,如系数乘积方法,面临着批评.
- 因果调解分析提供了一个更强大的框架,但可能是复杂的,特别是在多个调解者.
研究的目的:
- 提供一个全面的教程,以两个调解员进行因果调解分析.
- 解决不同的数据生成机制:因果依赖,独立和非因果依赖的调解器.
- 为应用心理学研究人员提供实用工具和理解.
主要方法:
- 介绍了自然直接和间接影响的正式定义和假设.
- 研究了三个数据生成机制:依赖,独立和非因果依赖的调解器.
- 详细介绍了四种估计策略:归算,扩展归算,反向概率加权和准贝叶斯的蒙特卡洛.
主要成果:
- 提供R和Stata代码用于估计直接,共同间接和路径特定间接影响.
- 该教程使用国际约会暴力研究中的例子说明了方法.
- 该指南阐明了复杂调解模型的概念,假设和估计策略.
结论:
- 本教程使研究人员能够自信地使用多个调解者进行因果调解分析.
- 它弥合了理论概念和心理学研究中的实际应用之间的差距.
- 提供的资源有助于在复杂的调解场景中准确估计直接和间接影响.
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