Mediation variables in scientific theory.
Mediation variables in scientific theory.
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科学理论中的中介变量。
DOI：
10.1037/h0043718
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发表时间：
1956
影响因子：
5.4
通讯作者：
W. W. Rozeboom
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作者：
W. W. Rozeboom
自MacCorquodale和Meehl的广泛误解的论文“On a Distinction Between Hypothetical Constructs and Intervening Variables”（1948）发表在本杂志上以来，已经过去了近十年。从那时起，心理学文献中爆发了一系列的反驳，有些人试图重新定义除了MacCorquodale和Meehl提出的区别之外的沿着维度（例如，金斯伯格，1954年;马克思，1951年; Seward，1955），和其他人完全否定的区别（Bergmann，1951; Kendler，1952），直到一个点已经达到作家在方法论问题不再把这两个概念作为单独的概念，但只是提到一个路过的脚注，一个区别可能存在。
It is now nearly a decade since MacCorquodale and Meehl’s widely misunderstood paper,“On a Distinction Between Hypothetical Constructs and Intervening Variables”(1948), appeared in this Journal. Since then, a rash of rebuttals has broken out in the psychological literature, some attempting to redefine the distinction along dimensions other than the one proposed by MacCorquodale and Meehl (e.g., Ginsberg, 1954; Marx, 1951; Seward, 1955), and others repudiating the distinction entirely (Bergmann, 1951; Kendler, 1952), until a point has been reached where writers on methodological issues no longer treat the two notions as separate concepts, but merely mention in a passing footnote that a distinction may possibly exist.