moderating role

collocation in English

meaningsofmoderateandrole

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moderate
adjective
uk
/ˈmɒd.ər.ət/
us
/ˈmɑː.dɚ.ət/
neither small nor large in size, amount, degree, ...
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role
noun[C]
uk
/rəʊl/
us
/roʊl/
the position or purpose that someone or something has in a situation, organization, society, ...
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(Definition ofmoderateandrolefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Results did provide support for amoderatingroleof maternal depression in the relation between children's internalizing symptoms and laboratory baseline cortisol levels.
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Thus, our discussion of reciprocality among family processes and themoderatingroleof adult characteristics should be interpreted with caution until findings are replicated.
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Thus gender could play amoderatingrolein the relation between early adversity and psychopathology.
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The potentialmoderatingroleof acute noise exposure on the relationship between chronic school noise exposure and child health and performance was also examined.
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Collectively, these findings provide initial evidence for themoderatingroleof parent- child conflict in the relation between marital conflict and child adjustment problems.
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They were interested in studying amoderatingrolefor adult control attributions in the relationship between child controllability and adult assertiveness.
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In particular, a series of nested models was estimated to test themoderatingroleof gender.
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Future research should examine other incidences of self-regulation of emotion to confirm the present finding of amoderatingroleof emotion regulation in the association between temperament and behavior problems.
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Third, the potentialmoderatingroleof age on the association between maltreatment and cognitive skill performance in both nice and mean stories was assessed.
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While the role of stress reactivity in emotional and behavioral problems was not straightforward, there were interesting and provocative patterns, with indications that gender sometimes plays amoderatingrole.
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This study extends previous research by longitudinally examining the relationship between family processes and peer relationship outcomes as well as by investigating themoderatingroleof vagal tone.
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A related goal was to study the potential mediating ormoderatingroleof comorbid parental psychopathology, such as depression and antisocial behavior, difficult infant temperament, and parental aggression.
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In summary, the present study partially confirmed the relative stability of temperament while also demonstrating themoderatingroleof emotion self-regulation in predicting preschool externalizing and total problem behavior.
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