Several Mediators
Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2018 12:03 pm
Hi guys,
at the moment I'm trying to figure out on how to analyze mediation effects in the following model:
(Of course, in general: bootstrapping -> specific indirect effects)
So my questions...
1) Do I simply report A -> M1 -> M3 -> X and so on?
2) How do I get the following "combined" effect: M1 -> M3 -> X? Smartpls does not provide this one, or is it just irrelevant? I'm curious because in some articles there were similar models and they only stated the combined effect M1 -> M3 -> X while ignoring A/B/C -> M1 -> M3 -> X ...
3) Do I need to conduct any further analysis (in SPSS/PLS) regarding this model when analyzing mediation effects?
4) In my theoretical model there is no direct effect from M1 to X or Z. But full mediation is highly unlikely. So in order to analyze indirect effects of M3 to X and Z correctly I should also draw arrows from M1/M2/A/B/C to X/Z, right (if there is a direct effect...)?
Any ideas?
Thank you so much!!
at the moment I'm trying to figure out on how to analyze mediation effects in the following model:
(Of course, in general: bootstrapping -> specific indirect effects)
So my questions...
1) Do I simply report A -> M1 -> M3 -> X and so on?
2) How do I get the following "combined" effect: M1 -> M3 -> X? Smartpls does not provide this one, or is it just irrelevant? I'm curious because in some articles there were similar models and they only stated the combined effect M1 -> M3 -> X while ignoring A/B/C -> M1 -> M3 -> X ...
3) Do I need to conduct any further analysis (in SPSS/PLS) regarding this model when analyzing mediation effects?
4) In my theoretical model there is no direct effect from M1 to X or Z. But full mediation is highly unlikely. So in order to analyze indirect effects of M3 to X and Z correctly I should also draw arrows from M1/M2/A/B/C to X/Z, right (if there is a direct effect...)?
Any ideas?
Thank you so much!!