On the other hand, supervisors' injunctive safety norms and perceived behavioral control were the mediator variables between organizational safety climate and compliance safety behaviors.
The study suggests a model in which competitive strategy acts as a mediator variable in the relationship between organizational structure and firm performance.
It allows determination of the extent to which each mediator variable affects the relationship between the hypothesised predictor and the outcome in the presence of other potential mediators.
To evaluate whether vitamin D explains how obesity affects cancer risk, one needs to assess if vitamin D is a mediator variable for the association between obesity (exposure) and cancer (outcome) [ 13, 14].
Workplace support, particularly from the supervisor, is an important mediator variable that explains the relationship between transformational leadership and job satisfaction.
By estimating different pathways between the dependent, independent and mediator variable, this approach attempts to indirectly test mediation.
A mediation relationship occurs when M plays a quantifiably important role in governing the relationship between X and Y. Thus, an established mediator variable serves to clarify the nature of the relationship between independent and dependent variables.
The relationship between childhood abuse and the mediator variable of anger, was significant b = 0.032, t 571) = 2.78, p = .006; as with the mediator variable of anger, and the outcome variable of violence (b = 0.386, p < .01).01
Figure 4 presents the analysis framework and shows the relationships between ICIT and "influences" whereas "receptivity" acts as a mediator variable [ 34].
However, Wise and DeMars cautioned that the relationship between test performance and test-taking motivation could have been distorted by academic ability as a mediator variable.
