According to Bruni et al. (2000: 159), "family is the intervening variable between gender and entrepreneurship".
Meehl and MacCorquodale recommended using the term intervening variable for the abstraction and hypothetical construct for the physiological foundation.
Survey results suggest that vertical information sharing is an important intervening variable in understanding the performance effects of budget participation and organizational commitment.
To illustrate: Hull treated habit strength as an intervening variable, defining it as an abstract mathematical function of the number of times a given response is rewarded.
In this paper, we develop and test a theoretical model in which we introduce an intervening variable to capture the implementation of labor flexibility.
Within a West European context I have called this the "Chirac-Thatcher debate" and suggested that actually, both arguments can be true, but there is an intervening variable: issue ownership.
We suggest that it is the neglect of this intervening variable that has partly confounded attempts to demonstrate a clear positive relationship between market orientation and operational employee characteristics, such as morale, job satisfaction, and retention.
He held that learning itself is not directly observable; it is an intervening variable, one that is inferred as a connecting process between antecedent (independent) variables and consequent (dependent) behaviour.
Moreover, the study looks into the following topics: 1. Emotional conflicts; 2. Psychological and sexual consequences of the 'occidental meaning' of mutilation; 3. Pain and pleasure perception; 4. Sexual satisfaction/dissatisfaction; 5. Sentimental relationship quality as an intervening variable.
Based on two-point diagonal quadratic approximation (referred to as TDQA), developed by Kim et al. [Min-Soo Kim, Jong-Rip Kim, Jae-Young Jeon, Dong-Hoon Choi, Efficient mechanical system optimization using two-point diagonal approximation in the nonlinear intervening variable space, J. KSME 15 (2001) 1257 126], enhanced two-point approximation methods are proposed in this paper.
The study found indirect effect on perceived behavioral controls to entrepreneurial intention with entrepreneurial education as an intervening variable.
