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 Kirill Fayn posted on Wednesday, June 04, 2014 - 10:44 pm
Hi Drs Muthen & Muthen,

I am trying to estimate a multilevel mediation model 2-1-1 using the code from Preacher's example F at website: http://www.quantpsy.org/pubs/syntax_appendix_081311.pdf

I have replicated their code exactly but am getting the following errors:

*** WARNING in MODEL command
In the MODEL command, the following variable is a y-variable on the BETWEEN
level and an x-variable on the WITHIN level. This variable will be treated
as a y-variable on both levels: COPE_T
*** ERROR in MODEL command
Observed variable on the right-hand side of a between-level ON statement
must be a BETWEEN variable. Problem with: COPE_T

COPE_T is my mediator variable that I have not defined as a WITHIN or BETWEEN variable.

I am using mplus v7.

Thank you in advance for your help.
 Linda K. Muthen posted on Thursday, June 05, 2014 - 1:33 pm
Try putting a factor behind cope_t, for example,

f BY cope_t@1;
cope_t@0;

and use the factor as a covariate. This makes f and cope_t equivalent.
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