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01/search?q=cache:IERvvryqTfQJ:/cm/mediate.htm+what+is+partial+mediationhl=zh-CNct=clnkcd=6gl=cnst_usg=ALhdy28nm9ic9hiZ2WRtEodqzcd-ciATMw 来源：google网页快照 David A. Kenny January 10, 2008 Please email me suggestions and corrections. MEDIATION What is Mediation? Baron Kenny Steps Measuring Mediation or the Indirect Effect Design Issues Specification Error Extensions Links to Other Sites References What Is Mediation? ??? Consider a variable X that is assumed to affect another variable Y.? The variable X is called the initial variable and the variable that it causes or Y is called the outcome.? In diagrammatic form, the unmediated model is 图片显示不出来 The effect of X on Y may be mediated by a process or mediating variable M, and the variable X may still affect Y.?Path c is called the total effect.? The mediated model is图片显示不出来 (These two diagrams are essential to the understanding of this page.? Please study them carefully!) ?Path c is called the direct effect. ? The mediator has been called an intervening or process variable.? Complete mediation is the case in which variable X no longer affects Y after M has been controlled and so path c is zero. Partial mediation is the case in which the path from X to Y is reduced in absolute size but is still different from zero when the mediator is controlled. ??? Note that a mediational model is a causal model.? For example, the mediator is presumed to cause the outcome and not vice versa.? If the presumed model is not correct, the results from the mediational analysis are of little value.? Mediation is not defined statistically; rather statistics can be used to evaluate a presumed mediational model.? The reader should consult the section below on? Specification Error. ??? There is a long history in the study of mediation (Hyman, 1955; MacCorquodale Meehl, 1948).? Currently mediation is a very popular topic.? (This page averages over 100 different visitors a day.)? There are several reasons for the intense interest in t