The Consortium for the Advancement of Research Methods and Analysis (CARMA) hosts Dr. Jeff Edwards, Belk Distinguished Professor of Organizational Behavior at the University of North Carolina, for the first lecture in the 2017-18 CARMA Webcast Lecture Series. A live audience is invited!

Research during the past decade has brought important advancements in methods for integrating moderation and mediation. Much of this work has focused on the prototypical three-variable mediated model with one independent variable, one mediator, and one outcome, with one or more moderator variables added to the three paths that constitute this model. Procedures for analyzing more complex models have become available, such as the PROCESS macro available for use with SPSS and SAS. This presentation takes a back-to-basics approach for specifying and testing models that integrate moderation and mediation, explaining how the equations for any model can be written and combined to derive, estimate, and compare any effects of interest.

Nebraska faculty and graduate students can join us for a special “Meet the Methodologist” interview at 10:30 a.m. and a Q&A session following the lecture, which begins at 11 a.m. and will be shown online via live webcast.