"mediating variables" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to variables that mediate or intervene between two variables, or between a cause and effect. For example, "The researcher hypothesized that an increase in education level could be explained through a number of mediating variables, such as income levels and access to healthcare."
The theoretical approach focuses on action theory for how the program affects mediating variables and on conceptual theory for how mediating variables are related to tobacco use.
Third, we conduct a systematic review of mediating variables.
Group differences were substantial for the digit span test and were not attenuated by mediating variables.
As mediating variables, emotional states pleasure, arousal, and dominance were adopted.
Coping style and coping self-efficacy were investigated as mediating variables.
This paper underscores the important role played by theory-based mediating variables in randomized clinical trials.
To determine the effectiveness of an educational intervention on infant feeding behaviors and mothers' psychosocial mediating variables based on the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), and to assess the predictive effect of mediating variables on mothers' intention and feeding practices.
In these studies, prevention programs are designed to change mediating variables hypothesized to be causally related to the dependent variable.
Entrepreneurial orientation directly and indirectly impacts firm performance through mediating variables such as market orientation and marketing capabilities.
Inclusion of ethnicity in the design showed that the program, when administered by specialists, had delayed effects on mediating variables for African American and Hispanic students.
Results indicate that the All Stars program, when administered by teachers, had an immediate effect on mediating variables that did not persist over time.
