QuickGuidemediate.docx

Merle Canfield

This guide is for analyzing mediating or intervening variables and factors.  Go to Confirmatory Factor analysis notes (QuickGuideConfirmatory) to get to this point.  We are going to treat Factor 3 as the mediating (or treatment, or intervention) variable.

 

Double click F2 to get the following.

 

Double click one of the parameters to get the following.

 

 

 

 

Chi square with the (f3,f1)=(f2,f1) is 115.165.   The full model is 109.86 and the difference is 5.305 and significant at <.05 (3.84).