Exercise 6: Moderation and mediation
- Build leadership and engagement scale scores.
- Center workload and organizational support.
- Estimate
burnout ~ workload_c * support_cplus age and tenure controls. - Interpret the interaction term and plot it.
- Estimate the mediator model for engagement.
- Estimate the performance outcome model.
- Run the mediation procedure with a fixed seed.
- Describe the indirect association without making a causal claim.
- Write one sentence distinguishing moderation from mediation.