mediating variable

collocation in English

meaningsofmediateandvariable

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mediate
verb[I or T]
uk
/ˈmiː.di.eɪt/
us
/ˈmiː.di.eɪt/
to talk to two separate people or groups involved in a disagreement to try to help them to agree or find a solution to ...
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variable
noun[C]
uk
/ˈveə.ri.ə.bəl/
us
/ˈver.i.ə.bəl/
a number, amount, or situation that ...
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(Definition ofmediateandvariablefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Thus, the interventions influence change in themediatingvariablethat, in turn, influences the outcome.
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Social cognition is placed between basic neurocognition and functional outcome as amediatingvariable.
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The quality of the relationship between young adults and each parent was added to each equation as a potentialmediatingvariable.
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Analyses of transactional processes generally had sought amediatingvariablein the social context that explained the relation between the child's condition at two points in time.
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Maternal employment and children's academic achievement : parenting style asmediatingvariable.
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The numbers in parentheses indicate the indirect relations between the home literacy variable and phoneme awareness via themediatingvariable(ß1 x ß2)2 x 100.
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A second example of amediatingvariableis depression.
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These potential mediating variables warrant testing in large-scale clinical trials.
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Of note, there are many unanswered questions about potential mediating variables that may impact treatment outcome.
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This criterion was not met by any of the potential mediating variables examined.
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Thus, mediation of the intervention effect occurred through the addition of the five mediating variables.
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The final element of the model associates both the predictor and mediating variables with the psychosocial variables, and again finds striking differences between women and men.
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Here we add in the mediating variables of dietary change to examine what effect they have on this key element of psychological well-being.
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The third step in establishing mediation is to show that a relationship exists between the mediating variables and the outcome variables.
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It is probably the case that the measures chosen to determine the mechanism of problem-solving are similarly state dependent symptoms rather than independent mediating variables.
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In a second step, the hypothesized parental mediating variables were added in to the growth model that included the parental and contextual risk factors.
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Future models should continue to postulate mediating variables that offer greater insight into the complex relationships at work between families and young adults.
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In all of these analyses, ethnicity's statistical interactions with the independent variables (treatment conditions) and the mediating variables (parenting behavior, reading outcomes) will be evaluated.
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This deficiency would extend not only to the relationship between influences and enforcement styles, but also to such matters as mediating variables, effect sizes, and directionality.
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