A New Analytic Framework for Moderation Analysis — Moving Beyond Analytic Interactions

A New Analytic Framework for Moderation Analysis — Moving Beyond Analytic Interactions. Tang, W., Yu, Q., Crits-Christoph, P., & Tu, X. M
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Conceptually, a moderator is a variable that modiﬁes the eﬀect of a predictor on a response. Analytically, a common approach as used in most moderation analyses is to add analytic interactions involving the predictor and moderator in the form of cross-variable products and test the signiﬁcance of such terms. The narrow scope of such a procedure is inconsistent with the broader conceptual deﬁnition of moderation, leading to confusion in interpretation of study ﬁndings. In this paper, we develop a new approach to the analytic procedure that is consistent with the concept of moderation. The proposed framework deﬁnes moderation as a process that modiﬁes an existing relationship between the predictor and the outcome, rather than simply a test of a predictor by moderator interaction. The approach is illustrated with data from a real study.

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