Journal
RESEARCH ON SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE
Volume 21, Issue 6, Pages 675-681Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/1049731511414148
Keywords
methodology; methodological article; intervention; outcome
Categories
Funding
- NIDA NIH HHS [R01 DA009757] Funding Source: Medline
Ask authors/readers for more resources
The purpose of this article is to describe mediating variables and moderating variables and provide reasons for integrating them in outcome studies. Separate sections describe examples of moderating and mediating variables and the simplest statistical model for investigating each variable. The strengths and limitations of incorporating mediating and moderating variables in a research study are discussed as well as approaches to routinely including these variables in outcome research. The routine inclusion of mediating and moderating variables holds the promise of increasing the amount of information from outcome studies by generating practical information about interventions as well as testing theory. The primary focus is on mediating and moderating variables for intervention research but many issues apply to nonintervention research as well.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available