{"id":27315,"date":"2018-08-21T01:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T01:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/nurazaliah\/?p=27315"},"modified":"2018-08-21T01:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T01:30:00","slug":"moderator-vs-mediator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/nurazaliah\/2018\/08\/21\/moderator-vs-mediator\/","title":{"rendered":"Moderator vs Mediator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>a <strong>moderator variable <\/strong>is (penyederhana) one that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">influences the strength of a relationship between two other variables<\/span>, and a <strong>mediator variable<\/strong>\u00a0(penengah\/pengantara) is one that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">explains the relationship between the two other variables<\/span>.\u00a0Mediation analysis facilitates a better understanding of the relationship between the independent and dependent variables when the variables appear to not have a definite connection<\/p>\n<p>As an example, let&#8217;s consider the relationship between <strong>social class (SES)<\/strong> and frequency of <strong>breast self-exams (BSE)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Age<\/em> might be a <em>moderator variable,<\/em> in that the relation between <span style=\"color: #800080\">SES and BSE could be stronger for older women<\/span> and l<span style=\"color: #800080\">ess strong or nonexistent for younger women<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/mdcw.socsci.uva.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/two-ways-1.png\" alt=\"Image result for moderator in statistics\" width=\"430\" height=\"160\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smartpls.com\/user\/pages\/05.documentation\/02.algorithms-and-techniques\/16.moderation\/moderation.png\" alt=\"Image result for moderator in smartpls\" width=\"539\" height=\"329\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Education<\/em> might be a <em>mediator variable<\/em> in that it explains why there is a relation between SES and BSE. When you <span style=\"color: #800080\">remove the effect of education, the relation between SES and BSE might disappear.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/4\/4d\/Mediation.jpg\" alt=\"Image result for mediator in statistics\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.stack.imgur.com\/RaOcQ.png\" alt=\"Image result for mediation without direct effect vs mediation with direct effect\" width=\"548\" height=\"152\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smartpls.com\/user\/pages\/05.documentation\/02.algorithms-and-techniques\/15.mediation\/smartpls.png\" alt=\"Related image\" width=\"439\" height=\"263\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a moderator variable is (penyederhana) one that influences the strength of a relationship between two other variables, and a mediator variable\u00a0(penengah\/pengantara) is one that explains the relationship between the two other variables.\u00a0Mediation analysis facilitates a better understanding of the relationship between the independent and dependent variables when the variables appear to not have a definite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6541,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,67],"tags":[68,69],"class_list":["post-27315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research","category-statistics","tag-mediator","tag-moderator"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/nurazaliah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/nurazaliah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/nurazaliah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/nurazaliah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6541"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/nurazaliah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/nurazaliah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/nurazaliah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/nurazaliah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/nurazaliah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}