Pathways to health: conceptual clarification and appropriate statistical treatment of mediator, moderator, and indirect effects using examples from burnout research

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dc.contributor.authorPretorius, Tyrone B
dc.date.accessioned2022-12-05T10:01:59Z
dc.date.available2022-12-05T10:01:59Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractIn my role as consulting statistical editor for the South African Journal of Psychology, I have witnessed a steady increase in articles that focused on the presumed role of mediator and moderator variables. While straightforward cause–effect studies have an important explanatory role, our task in the helping profession is to identify those factors that ‘intervene’ and make individuals differentially vulnerable in the cause–effect relationship. However, in a significant number of papers I have reviewed, there appeared to be considerable conceptual confusion about these variables with moderator and mediator often used interchangeably. In addition, no single paper I have reviewed considered indirect effects. This article attempts to differentiate between the various roles that a third variable can play in the adverse condition–wellbeing relationship (e.g., the stress–depression relationship). In addition, the appropriate statistical procedures for testing these roles are demonstrated using burnout research data. In this particular research project, 207 secondary school teachers completed a range of research questionnaires designed to assess among others burnout, work environment, social support, personal competence, coping, and problem-solving appraisal. Using this data, the various roles that third variables can play are demonstrated using hierarchical regression analyses.en_US
dc.identifier.citationPretorius, T. B. (2020). Pathways to health: Conceptual clarification and appropriate statistical treatment of mediator, moderator, and indirect effects using examples from burnout research. South African Journal of Psychology, 50(3), 320–335. https://doi.org/10.1177/0081246320943498en_US
dc.identifier.issn0081-2463
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/8178
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherSouth African journal of psychologyen_US
dc.subjectBurnouten_US
dc.subjectdirect effectsen_US
dc.subjectindirect effectsen_US
dc.subjectmediatoren_US
dc.subjectmoderatoren_US
dc.titlePathways to health: conceptual clarification and appropriate statistical treatment of mediator, moderator, and indirect effects using examples from burnout researchen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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