The phrase "a mediator effect" is not correct in standard English; it should be "a mediating effect." You can use it when discussing the role of a variable that helps explain the relationship between two other variables in research or statistical analysis.
Example: "The study found that stress had a mediating effect on the relationship between work hours and job satisfaction."
Alternatives: "a mediating influence" or "a mediating role."
As a result of this study, we found that management capability has a mediator effect on the relationship between SHRM implications and organizational performance which includes financial and employee indicators.
Attenuation of the association indicates a mediator effect.
If these criteria are met, hierarchical linear regression analyses can be used to test whether social inhibition has a mediator effect, that is, whether it reduces the regression coefficient - the link between inversed emotional stability and depression.
The hypothesis of a mediator effect of social support on diagnoses, physical impairments and psychological distress was tested in Models 2 and 3, Table 4, with an adjustment for social support and demographic factors.
The data were resampled 1000 times to generate a 95%% confidence interval, and a mediator effect was deemed present if the confidence interval did not contain zero (i.e., there was a 95%% chance that the total indirect effect was not zero).
This finding could also point to a mediator effect, whereby mode of birth accounts for the association between hospital stay and confidence; women who had a caesarean section are likely to have had longer hospital stays and may also feel less confident about looking after their new baby than women who birthed vaginally (e.g., due to reduced mobility in the postpartum or other factors).
We also found that smoking rates increased with single mothers' levels of perceived psychosocial stress, confirming the second condition of a mediator-effect.
Recently, Rhodes and Pfaeffli [ 29], in a wide-reaching review, suggested that changes in the structure of self-regulation might have a greater mediator effect on changing behaviour relative to PA.
These results support the assumption that headache frequency is related to the emotional burden of the condition but with an indirect mediator effect of depression and sleep quality; whereas the relation with interference of pain is only mediated by sleep quality.
How to further foster the potential beneficial mediator effect of a reduced ΔP?
Model extensions will determine the explanatory effects on virologic suppression of 1) retention in care as a mediator of effect, and 2) intensity of SMS exposure (per protocol analysis).
