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Ginger Lockhart1, David P MacKinnon, Vanessa Ohlrich.
Abstract
This article presents an overview of statistical mediation analysis and its application to psychosomatic medicine research. The article begins with a description of the major approaches to mediation analysis and an evaluation of the strengths and limits of each. Emphasis is placed on longitudinal mediation models, and an application using latent growth modeling is presented. The article concludes with a description of recent developments in mediation analysis and suggestions for the use of mediation for future work in psychosomatic medicine research.Entities:
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Year: 2010 PMID: 21148809 PMCID: PMC3366636 DOI: 10.1097/PSY.0b013e318200a54b
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Psychosom Med ISSN: 0033-3174 Impact factor: 4.312