Appendix A — reading

A.1 Reading materials

Judd, C. M., & Kenny, D. A. (1981).  Process analysis: Estimating mediation in treatment evaluations. Evaluation Review, 5, 602-619

Baron, R. M., & Kenny, D. A. (1986).  The moderator-mediator variable distinction in social psychological research: Conceptual, strategic and statistical considerations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 51, 1173-1182

Greenland, S., Pearl, J., & Robins, J. M. (1999). Causal diagrams for epidemiologic research. Epidemiology, 37-48.

MacKinnon, D. P. (2008). Introduction to statistical mediation analysis. New York: Erlbaum.

Selig, J. P., & Preacher, K. J. (2009). Mediation models for longitudinal data in developmental research. Research in Human Development, 6(2),144-164.

VanderWeele, T. J. & Vansteelandt, S. (2009). Conceptual issues concerning mediation, interventions and composition. Statistics and Its Interface, 2(4), 457-468.

Preacher, K. J., & Kelley, K.  (2011).  Effect size measures for mediation models:  Quantitative strategies for communicating indirect effects. Psychological Methods, 16, 93-115.

Hayes, A. F. (2013). Introduction to mediation, moderation, and conditional process analysis: A regression-based approach. Guilford Press.

More (Adjustment) is Not Always Better: How Directed Acyclic Graphs Can Help Researchers Decide Which Covariates to Include in Models for the Causal Relationship Between an Exposure and an Outcome in Observational Research https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8974490/