Structural Equation Model for Testing Mediation Effect

Structural Equation Model for Testing Mediation Effect

Chong Xing, Paul Johnson, and Meghan Fager

Center for Research Methods and Data Analysis, University of Kansas

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2019-02-06

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Table of Contents

1 The lavaan Example

2 TITLE Command

TITLE:
  Example 7
Health Behavior in School Children
Mediation Analsys of Latent Variables with Continuous Data using MLR
Bulliedied, Alcohol, and Depression;

3 DATA Command

DATA:
  FILE IS "../../../data/hbsc-subset2/hbsc-subset2.dat";
  LISTWISE = ON;

4 VARIABLE Command

VARIABLE:
  NAMES ARE
  stud_id schl_id Gender Age Grade body1r body2 body3r body4 body5r
  phyhlth1 phyhlth2 phyhlth3 phyhlth4 phyhlth5 phyhlth6 phyhlth7
  phyhlth8 Depress1 Depress2 Depress3 Depress4 Depress5 Depress6
  Bullied1 Bullied2 Bullied3 Bullied4 Bullied5 Bullied6 Bullied7
  Bullied8 Bullied9 Bullier1 Bullier2 Bullier3 Bullier4 Bullier5
  Bullier6 Bullier7 Bullier8 Bullier9 Alc1 Alc2 Alc3 Alc4 Alc5;

  USEVARIABLES ARE
  Bullied1-Bullied9 Alc1-Alc5 Depress1-Depress6;

  MISSING ARE all(-999);

5 ANALYSIS Command

ANALYSIS:
  ESTIMATOR = ML;
  BOOTSTRAP = 10;

6 MODEL Command

MODEL:
  Bullied BY Bullied1* Bullied2-Bullied9;
  Bullied@1.0;

  Alcohol BY Alc1* Alc2-Alc5;
  Alcohol@1.0;

  Depress BY Depress1* Depress2-Depress6;
  Depress@1.0;

  Depress ON Bullied;
  Alcohol ON Bullied Depress;

MODEL INDIRECT:
  Alcohol IND Depress Bullied;

7 OUTPUT Command

OUTPUT:
  SAMPSTAT;
  TECH1;
  STANDARDIZED;
  CINTERVAL;

8 Run the Model

mplus sem-02-mlboot-listwise.inp
Mplus VERSION 8.2 (Linux)
MUTHEN & MUTHEN

Running input file 'sem-02-mlboot-listwise.inp'...

ESTIMATION WITH BOOTSTRAP DRAW NUMBER 1
ESTIMATION WITH BOOTSTRAP DRAW NUMBER 2
ESTIMATION WITH BOOTSTRAP DRAW NUMBER 3
ESTIMATION WITH BOOTSTRAP DRAW NUMBER 4
ESTIMATION WITH BOOTSTRAP DRAW NUMBER 5
ESTIMATION WITH BOOTSTRAP DRAW NUMBER 6
ESTIMATION WITH BOOTSTRAP DRAW NUMBER 7
ESTIMATION WITH BOOTSTRAP DRAW NUMBER 8
ESTIMATION WITH BOOTSTRAP DRAW NUMBER 9
ESTIMATION WITH BOOTSTRAP DRAW NUMBER 10
Beginning Time:  09:50:55
   Ending Time:  09:50:56
  Elapsed Time:  00:00:01

Output saved in 'sem-02-mlboot-listwise.out'.

9 Review the Results

Click sem-02-mlboot-listwise.out to see the output.

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