Analyzing Complex Causal Pathways: Mediation and Moderation

Specify a mediation model for a causal pathway that spans multiple perspectives (e.g., wife-bull activity → wife's guilt → husband's jealousy).

Test indirect effects in actor-partner mediation models where a mediator for one participant influences an outcome for another.

Specify a moderated actor-partner model where one participant's characteristic (e.g., bull's sensitivity) moderates an activity's effect on another's emotion (e.g., wife's guilt).

Estimate and interpret the interaction term representing cross-person moderation in the specified model.

Distinguish between mediated moderation and moderated mediation in the context of the triadic causal structure.

Assess the identifiability and testability of complex mediation-moderation pathways given interdependent triadic data.