Differences and Similarities between Mediation and Moderation Questions

1- There is one question for chapter 7. The questions under the Do Critical Thinking at the end of the chapter.

the question is question number 6 on chapter 7 page 269 (Do Critical Thinking):

-Explain the similarities and differences between mediation and moderation?

2- Also, Must evaluate the Mehrkish & Grant (2021)  article with respect to its design and execution. Be sure to answer the following questions:

– Was the research design the correct one to use? 

– Was it executed well? 

– Were the analyses, especially exploratory factor analysis, the correct choices? 

– Were they done in the right way? 

– What would be the first change to make to improve the research if one were to do a replication of the study?

Also, add on the end:

– What were the three best aspects of this paper? 

– What were the three worst aspects?

– What questions did you have about how the authors used the statistic or analysis in this study (Mehrkish & Grant (2021) article)? 

       * Agree on the most puzzling analyses-what seemed wrong or misapplied?  

I’m attaching chapter 7 (2 parts) and attaching the paper that needs to answer the following questions which are required to answer the exercise.

Hint: please please keep it simple and answer right away.. No complicated sentences or vocabulary.

I will present the answer to this article “Mehrkish & Grant (2021) article” I need a good critique on it. I will give more time than before 3 days 🙂