Asymptotic Confidence Intervals for Indirect Effects in Structural Equation Models
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...Sobel (1982) provided an approximate significance test for the indirect effect of the independent variable on the dependent variable via the mediator....
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...Sobel (1982, 1986) applied the delta method for this purpose with very large samples in mind, in which case it is reasonable to expect the sampling distribution to be approximately normal....
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...The Sobel test (Sobel, 1982, 1986), also called the product-of-coefficients approach, involves case mediation) is found, one can conclude that the set of j variables mediates the effect of X on Y....
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...File: Preacher-BRMIC-2004.zip Description: The compressed archive file contains three files: sobel_spss.txt, containing the SPSS macro developed by Preacher and Hayes (2004). Instructions for using this macro can be found in the file sobel_instr.txt. sobel_sas.txt, containing the SAS macro developed by Preacher and Hayes (2004). Instructions for using this macro can be found in the file sobel_instr....
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...File: Preacher-BRMIC-2004.zip Description: The compressed archive file contains three files: sobel_spss.txt, containing the SPSS macro developed by Preacher and Hayes (2004)....
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...SPSS and SAS procedures for estimating indirect effects in simple mediation models KRISTOPHER J. PREACHER University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina and ANDREW F. HAYES Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio Researchers often conduct mediation analysis in order to indirectly assess the effect of a proposed cause on some outcome through a proposed mediator....
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...File: Preacher-BRMIC-2004.zip Description: The compressed archive file contains three files: sobel_spss.txt, containing the SPSS macro developed by Preacher and Hayes (2004). Instructions for using this macro can be found in the file sobel_instr....
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...Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers 2004, 36 (4), 717-731 Psychologists often conduct research to establish whether and to what extent one variable affects another....
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...By default, the standard errors for these defined parameters are computed using the delta method (Sobel 1982)....
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...Statistical approaches to the analysis of mediation have been discussed extensively in the psychological literature (Baron & Kenny, 1986; Collins, Graham, & Flaherty, 1998; James & Brett, 1984; Judd & Kenny, 1981; Kenny, Kashy, & Bolger, 1998; Maccorquodale & Meehl, 1948; MacKinnon & Dwyer, 1993; MacKinnon, Krull, & Lockwood, 2000; MacKinnon, Warsi, & Dwyer, 1995; Rozeboom, 1956; Sobel, 1982)....
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