Questionnaire Mediation Moderation Sop

Workflow

• Confirm scale scoring, coding direction, and missing-data handling before modeling.
• Choose mediation, moderation, or conditional process framing and document the model variables.
• Select an execution path such as PROCESS-style regression workflow or SEM/lavaan-style path modeling.
• Record bootstrap, interaction-probing, and reporting decisions explicitly.

Expected outputs

• Analysis decision log
• Model specification note
• Interpretation checklist for indirect or interaction effects

Limits

• This skill does not replace statistical review or publication judgment.

Failure checks

• Stop if X, M, Y, or moderator roles are ambiguous.
• Stop if scale scoring or reverse-key handling is not verified.

Evaluation examples

• Primary project example: questionnaire stress -> burnout via coping mediation.
• Held-out example: social support moderates stress -> wellbeing.

Governance metadata

• generated_at: 2026-04-02T13:54:16Z
• maturity: project
• verification: held-out-validated
• held_out_validation: passed

Maintainer notes

• Keep interpretation guidance separate from executable tool contracts.
• Refresh source material provenance when the workflow changes materially.
• Promote stable computation into an external or bundled plugin only after the computation boundary stabilizes.