Explaining Change: Theorizing and Testing Dynamic Mediated Longitudinal Relationships
指出许多学科的理论涉及动态中介关系，但多数研究未正确检验这些关系，导致理论检验不足和统计结论错误，并提出了概念化方法和两种统计模型，以团队绩效为例说明。
Many disciplines of scholarship have developed theories that involve dynamic mediated (and multilevel) relationships among constructs. However, most research does not hypothesize or test these dynamic relationships in a manner consistent with theory. In this article, the authors address this disconnect by first noting the theoretical and methodological limitations of ignoring dynamic mediated (and multilevel) relationships. Specifically, the authors show that theory testing suffers and statistical conclusions are often erroneous when dynamic mediation is ignored. The authors then present several ways of conceptualizing dynamic mediated relationships and then turn to summarizing two statistical models for analyzing such data. They conclude with a brief example from a team performance context.