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 Isabelle Lichy posted on Thursday, January 28, 2016 - 6:56 am
Hello,

I need to make a moderation analysis in Mplus within the actor partner independence model but have no clue how to include a moderator variable (humor frequency) in the regression of SAM (stress level) ON Pos_m/Pos_w (Positive Humor).

Find the current syntax below. Can anybody help?



DEFINE: posm = CLUSTER_MEAN(Pos_m);
posw = CLUSTER_MEAN(Pos_w);

CENTER day Pos_m Pos_w (GROUPMEAN);
CENTER posm posw (GRANDMEAN);

VARIABLE: NAMES ARE cluster day Pos_m Pos_w
SAM_f_m SAM_f_w SAM_a_m SAM_a_w;

MISSING = ALL(-99);

USEVARIABLES = cluster day Pos_m Pos_w SAM_a_m SAM_a_w posm posw;


BETWEEN = posm posw;
WITHIN = day Pos_m Pos_w;
CLUSTER = cluster;

ANALYSIS: TYPE = twolevel random;


MODEL:

%WITHIN%

ind_m | SAM_a_m ON Pos_m;
ind_w | SAM_a_w ON Pos_w;
cross_mw | SAM_a_w ON Pos_m;
cross_wm | SAM_a_m ON POs_w;


SAM_a_m SAM_a_w ON day;
SAM_a_m WITH SAM_a_w;


%BETWEEN%
SAM_a_m ON posm posw;
SAM_a_w ON posm posw;

SAM_a_m WITH SAM_a_w ind_m ind_w cross_mw cross_wm;
SAM_a_w WITH ind_m ind_w cross_mw cross_wm;
ind_m WITH ind_w cross_mw cross_wm;
ind_w WITH cross_mw cross_wm;
cross_mw WITH cross_wm;

OUTPUT:
sampstat CINTERVAL;
 Bengt O. Muthen posted on Thursday, January 28, 2016 - 6:29 pm
For moderation - in the form of a cross-level interaction - you would have to regress your random slopes on level-2 covariates, not just the random intercepts as you do now.
 Isabelle Lichy posted on Thursday, January 28, 2016 - 7:08 pm
Thank you for your reply!!

Could you show me this within the Syntax?

Or is there any example given in form of a syntax like I have found for the basic APIM?
 Bengt O. Muthen posted on Friday, January 29, 2016 - 6:03 pm
See the section on Cross-level Interaction on our Mediation page:

http://www.statmodel.com/Mediation.shtml
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