Mediation, Moderation, and Conditional Process Modeling Summer School
Aims
In this course you will learn how to conduct and interpret the results of mediation, moderation, and conditional process analyses. Mediation describes the case where an independent variable X influences another variable M (mediator), which in turn influences the dependent variable Y. Moderation describes the case where the effect of the independent variable X on the dependent variable Y changes across different levels of another variable M (moderator). Conditional process models combine mediation with moderation. This is an applied course: knowledge of algebra is not required. However, a basic understanding of OLS regression is necessary. This course is targeted to any person doing social science research that wants to learn how to test for mediation and moderation in his or her data.
Information
Mediation topics include: 1) simple mediation with any type of independent and dependent variables (i.e., continuous, dichotomous, multicategorical), 2) mediation with multiple parallel mediators, 3) mediation with multiple serial mediators. Moderation topics include: 1) moderation models with up to 2 moderators (3-way interactions) using any type of independent and dependent variables, 2) analysis of unconditional versus conditional effects, 3) Model estimation and interpretation, 4) Visualization. I will also discuss how to analyze conditional process models (i.e., models that include both mediation and moderation). Depending on the pace of the course I will also try to cover some specialized topics such as mediation analysis in within-participants designs and mediation analysis using a binary mediator. The course will be focused on teaching you how to conduct the appropriate analysis and interpret your results. We will be using PROCESS (Hayes, 2018) for the purposes of this course. Attendants should have a recent version of SPSS or R installed on their computer.
Assessment
Participants will need to deliver daily assignments. Datasets for these assignments will be provided by the lecturer.
Additional info
For the timetable of this course, please click here. The timetable is in the local time of Rotterdam, which is CEST (UTC+02:00).
This course is held fullly online.
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Registration
ERIM PhD candidates: Please register on OSIRIS Student using your Student ERNA.
ERIM faculty members: Please register on SIN Online.
External (non-ERIM) doctoral students: Please fill in the online registration form by 30 May 2022.
Please note that the number of places for this course is limited. In case the number of registrations exceeds the number of available seats, priority is given to ERIM PhD candidates.
This course is free of charge for ERIM fulltime and parttime PhD candidates and ERIM members. For external participants, the course fee is 250 euro per ECTS credit.
