Mediation models are used to describe the mechanism(s) by which one variable influences another. These models can be useful in developmental research to explicate the relationship between variables, developmental processes, or combinations of variables and processes. In this article we describe aspects of mediation effects specific to developmental research. We focus on three central issues in ...

Business theories often specify the mediating mechanisms by which a predictor variable affects an outcome variable. In the last 30 years, investigations of mediating processes have become more widespread with corresponding developments in statistical methods to conduct these tests. The purpose of this article is to provide guidelines for mediation studies by focusing on decisions made prior to ...

The literature on conflict management offers two explanations of why the effectiveness of thirdparties to settle militarized disputes differs. The structural research tradition focuses on conflictcharacteristics, while the individualist approaches highlight the background, skills and powerof a mediator, as well as the mediation strategy. This article reconciles these two approaches,...

Mediation is a type of third party intervention in environmental and other kinds of disputes. Its characteristics – voluntary participation and agreement, confidentiality of exchanges among parties, the search for mutually satisfactory solutions – are well suited for the multi-party, complex context of environmental conflicts. Mediation is often used concurrently with other modes of conflict ma...

This comment clarifies how structural causal models unify the graphical and potential outcome approaches to mediation, and why the resulting mediation formulas are identical in both frameworks. It further explains under what conditions ignorability-based assumptions are over-restrictive and why such assumptions require graphical interpretations before they can be judged for plausibility. Finall...

We compare three common dispute resolution processes — negotiation, mediation, and arbitration — in the framework of Crawford and Sobel (1982). Under negotiation, the two parties engage in (possibly arbitrarily long) face-to-face cheap talk. Under mediation, the parties communicate with a neutral third party who makes a non-binding recommendation. Under arbitration, the two parties commit to co...

By “mediation”, we mean any moderated conflict resolution discourse, regardless of the procedures, methods or tools applied. Since mediation is a kind of discourse, it seems reasonable to assume that information and communication technology can provide some useful support. This assumption is investigated by analyzing the tasks in the standard mediation procedure and matching them with a broad s...

This comment clarifies how Structural Causal Models (SCM) unify the graphical and potential outcome approaches to mediation, and why the resulting mediation formulas are identical in both frameworks. It further explains under what conditions ignorability based assumptions are over-restrictive and why such assumptions require graphical interpretations before they can be judged for plausibility. ...

In this paper, we investigate the effect of listing mediation history in the context of social network service, which has been recognized as a crucial platform for word-of-mouth diffusion. We focus on how people continuously mediate a message which is previously created. Information mediation refers to active participation of relaying an inbound message to outbound subscription nodes with sendi...

This teaching note starts with a demonstration of a straightforward procedure using Mplus Version 6 to produce a bias-corrected (BC) bootstrap confidence interval for testing a specific mediation effect in a complex latent variable model. The procedure is extended to constructing a BC bootstrap confidence interval for the difference between two specific mediation effects. The extended procedure...