"moderating variable" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it in any situation where you need to refer to a factor or element that affects an outcome in a weaker or more indirect way than other factors or elements. For example, "The findings of the study indicated that while a high grade point average was a strong predictor of future success, early childhood economic conditions served as a moderating variable."
The product term is then entered in model 2, to represent the interaction between group and moderating variable, and will indicate the moderating effect.
Furthermore, an older person's ability to act in an unfamiliar technological environment might influence driving performance in the simulator as moderating variable [60].
This study was one of the first to look at anger among offenders convicted of sex crimes with and without a history of childhood abuse as a mediating and moderating variable when committing a violent sex crime.
Previous studies examined anger as a mediating and moderating variable for violent offenders in terms of violent crime behavior (Betancourt and Blair, 1992; Dalton et al. 1998; Rebellon et al. 2012) but very few studies specifically examined a population of offenders convicted of sex crimes.
The effect of patient age as control (or moderating) variable is summarised in Table 4.
Because significant variation exists within age categories (Foley et al 2002; Langford et al 2006), we tested age as a confounding and moderating variable.
Issues Context Dependence Role of moderating variables in Six Sigma success - Moderating variables influencing the relationship between implementation and success of SSQI initiatives.
Moderator analyses were conducted to examine the conditions under which moderating variables interacted with the intervention condition as predictor variables in the main effect analyses.
We highlighted the role of moderating variables while discussing the integration/distinction issues between SSQI and TQM.
These mixed results point to the impact of moderating variables on the strength of the relationship between the strategy used with visualization and the learning outcome from it.
However, second language scholars' researches on writing reveal a" constellation of moderating variables that could make a difference regarding corrective feedback effectiveness" (Russell and Spada 2006).
