Mediator or Moderator?

Amazing and very insightful and concise explanation for this confusingly issue, thank you James.

Wonderfully Explained!!

It makes sense now

Listen if we are doing mediation moderation analysis then is it necessary to have the quantitative variables let's support if IV measured quantitatively and Dv I measured qualitatively then can I perform mediation moderation analysis need to clarify it please I acknowledge your support

You sound like Jim Halpert

Thank you so much for this. After hours of googling, reading, and watching numerous explanations about the topics, I can now have a break because of your video. Very much appreciated :)

best video.. thanks mates..

wow.. thanks..

Thank you!! This is by far the best explanation I came across. I understood moderator but not mediator and you made that concept click finally!

This is amazing! Thankyou!!!

Thank you so so much. Got through bachelor's without understanding but I finally get it!!

thank you!!

Amazing explanation!

But why there paper out there do not adhere to this explaination? A variable being tested as moderator where clearly the IV cause and affect the moderator?

Maaan. Thank u. Finally a good answer for this issue

Thank you!

Mr Gaskin, thank you for this explanation. As narrow as the focus of the video may seem, it has influenced my entire life in altering how I understand cause and effect, and will benefit every aspect of every function in which I serve. I cannot thank you enough for this.

Sooooo glad someone still knows that you either have man parts or woman parts. Thanks for the video as well. I am working a research class for Clinical Mental health and the book was less than helpful in explaining this. Very much appreciated.

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Dear Professor, Thank you for the insightful explanation. Could you please further clarify a tricky concept in moderation analysis? For example, as we know in simple moderation, where there's a significant and positive effect of an independent variable (X) on a dependent variable (Y), and a moderator variable (W) significantly moderates this relationship, a positive sign of the moderating value implies strengthening the relationship, while a negative sign suggests weakening it. However, if there's already a significant and negative relationship, such as Abusive leadership (X) and Employee Creativity (Y) shows a significant but negative relationship by this result(-0.161, p < .05), and Stress (W) moderates this relationship significantly but negatively (-0.201, p < .05), could you explain the implications of this negative moderator value? Does it further weaken or possibly reverse the negative relationship between abusive supervision and employee creativity?

I had a problem actually keeping the words themselves straight.
I think because for me they kind of bring up a third thing in relation to two things, especially in reference to people.
(A moderator in a meeting, A mediator in a debate)
So what I'm going to associate it with is "moderation" as in the saying "everything in moderation."
What is this everything? It's a situation that tips the scale in a certain direction. The context. The condition. When and when not? When one drinks too much. When one exercises too much. or Whom. A person who is too restrictive in their diet.

The best video I watched explained the differences. Thanks @James

Very clear explanation and lessens my headache in understanding their difference 😂 Kidding aside, thank you, very helpful as I am doing my dissertation paper now.

You're a legend. Thank you.

Dear Professor Gaskin, I have been learning about your videos since a few years ago, and they are all beneficial! Lately, I came across a mediation model (simple mediation model, model 4). My variables are as follows: IV (emotional intelligence), MV( resilience), and DV (perceived stress). In my study, emotional intelligence is believed to positively predict resilience (MV), and resilience (MV) is believed to negatively predict perceived stress (DV). I have an IV-DV hypothesis in which emotional Intelligence is believed to negatively predict perceived stress (DV). However, I got confused after running PROCESS macro for my test. Here are my results: I found a significant indirect effect (presence of a mediation), a negative sign, a nonsignificant direct effect (positive sign), and a significant Total effect (negative sign). I don't know why the direct effect has the opposite sign to the indirect and total effect, even if it is nonsignificant. Is this common in mediation and what will be the implications if I have an opposite direct effect sign (nonsignificant)? I would greatly appreciate your reply.

Thank you for the easy-to-understand explanation. :)

Mediator must be result of IV
Exercise → weighloss
Colorie intake is effecting IV
Wellbieng is effecting IV
Moderator has no effect on IV
Gender to above condition

in 2023, age of the woke, a gender can be determined by exercise sir.

I was really struggling with this and after watching your video its very clear now

That is an excellent video and explains everything I want on this topic! The best explanation, thanks James!

Thank you - seriously, this has helped me more than anything I've been taught or doing currently in my unit.

Gonna have a quiz on this soon. This video does clarify the difference. Thanks a lot!!!!

Many Thanks for that video, but what the control variable means, plese.

No, some people after exercise they change their gender!!!! Funny world!!!!!

Fantastic video! Thanks for the explanation

Thank you so much! Very helpful.

This helped me so much, THANKS to you I can finally wrap my hand around this and get cracking . I was all over the place constantly switching variables, so lost. This video clarified everything!

In this day and age gender could probably be a mediator variable (not saying I agree nor disagree with that!). Clear video, thanks James.

Superb video!

I read about the difference 1000 times and always would forget when i needed meaning I never understood, thank you for such a clear example

hello prof plz can you answer me these question because i haven t set this lesson yet .
state the moderating ,mediating,and varibles in the following haypotheses.
- students who experience test anxiety prior to an english exam will get higher
scores than students who do not
-fluency is determined by the amount of the oral practice of the traget language

Thank you!!! Super clear explanation I LOVE IT 😍

Thank you for the vedio.but I want to know
Is the moderator variable a type of extraneous variable or not?

FINALLY

hi, i have a question: when you test the effect an independent variable has on a dependent variable and you want to see if age has an influence on this effect, is age always a moderator variable?
sorry for my english, i'm not a native speaker, i hope you can understand what i mean. i really appreciate your help!

Tx

Kk

Simply presented, and well understood. Thanks a lot

It is really really illuminative. Thank you so much