Introduction to Mediation, Moderation, and Conditional Process Analysis, Third Edition by Andrew F. Hayes is an English-language textbook on statistical analysis methods in psychology and the social sciences. This reference work focuses on mediation, moderation, and conditional process analysis, based on regression techniques, and is suitable for students in higher education.
The book offers a comprehensive and up-to-date explanation of conditional process analysis with examples from published research. It covers estimating and interpreting direct, indirect, and conditional effects, visualizing interactions, and testing hypotheses about moderation of mechanisms. Code examples for SPSS, SAS, and R support practical application. This edition includes revised content, including extensive documentation of the PROCESS program and a bootstrap-based Johnson-Neyman approach for analyzing moderation within mediation models.
This study book is relevant for programs and fields such as Psychological methodology, Human geography, and PSYCHOLOGY / Research & Methodology.