Perhaps the best chance to capture mediating processes is to include an assessment of mediators as frequently as possible, at least before, during and after treatment.
However, few studies have examined mediating processes using longitudinal designs or objectively measured biological data.
The present study investigated mediating processes that explain how hardiness influences the way people respond to a stressful situation.
The empirically supported mediating processes extend the literature by elucidating some of the pathways through which TEI is linked with better adjustment and achievement.
In addition, in entrepreneurship research, mediating processes are rarely studied and, therefore, it is less clear whether attitudinal characteristics such as innovativeness will have an indirect influence on entrepreneurial intentions through their effect on self-efficacy.
Studies on the mediating processes between factors and aggression [2] and the effects of chronic pain both in humans and animals are still scarce.
We differentiated CHW performance outcome measures at three levels: CHW level, mediating processes and end-user level.
Second, personality traits (e.g., neuroticism, an enduring tendency to experience negative emotions) may affect health outcomes through mediating processes such as emotion regulation [ 19].
Conspicuously, though, the socio-economic determination on both types of IPV seems to be fully carried through mediating processes (stressors and substance misuse/abuse).
As patients' expectations only predicted post-treatment depressive symptoms, it seems plausible that mediating processes are at play that takes a longer time to affect depressive symptoms.
Potential mediating processes may be assessed with biomarkers that indicate lipid profile and levels of inflammation or endothelial dysfunction (Pearson et al. 2003; Selhub 2006).
