방법 비교

	조절된 매개 분석	경로 분석(Path Analysis)
분야	통계학	통계학
계열	Latent structure	Latent structure
기원 연도	2007	1921
창시자	Preacher, Rucker & Hayes	Sewall Wright
유형	Conditional process model	Causal / mediation model
원전	Hayes, A. F. (2018). Introduction to Mediation, Moderation, and Conditional Process Analysis: A Regression-Based Approach (2nd ed.). Guilford Press. ISBN: 978-1462534654	Wright, S. (1921). Correlation and causation. Journal of Agricultural Research, 20(7), 557–585.
별칭	conditional process analysis, moderated mediation model, first-stage moderated mediation, second-stage moderated mediation	PA, path coefficient analysis, observed-variable SEM, causal path modeling
관련	4	5
요약	Moderated mediation tests whether the indirect effect of an independent variable on an outcome — transmitted through a mediator — differs in strength depending on the level of a moderator variable. It answers the question: for whom, or under what conditions, does the mediated pathway operate most strongly?	Path analysis tests a researcher-specified causal diagram among observed variables by decomposing their intercorrelations into direct effects, indirect (mediated) effects, and spurious associations. Developed by Sewall Wright in 1921, it is the observed-variable special case of structural equation modeling and remains a standard tool for theory-driven multivariate causal inference.