Advances in Mediation Analysis: A Survey and Synthesis of New Developments

作者：Kristopher J. Preacher · 发表于：Annual Review of Psychology · 年份：2014 · DOI：10.1146/annurev-psych-010814-015258 · 被引用次数：820 · 研究领域：Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development、Cognitive Abilities and Testing、Advanced Causal Inference Techniques

Mediation processes are fundamental to many classic and emerging theoretical paradigms within psychology. Innovative methods continue to be developed to address the diverse needs of researchers studying such indirect effects. This review provides a survey and synthesis of four areas of active methodological research: (a) mediation analysis for longitudinal data, (b) causal inference for indirect effects, (c) mediation analysis for discrete and nonnormal variables, and (d) mediation assessment in multilevel designs. The aim of this review is to aid in the dissemination of developments in these four areas and suggest directions for future research.