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Re: Re: st: binary mediation command
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Pina Valle <[email protected]>
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Re: Re: st: binary mediation command
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Mon, 11 Jul 2011 11:50:39 -0400
This makes sense, thanks Maarten. To make sure I understand correctly, it is something to the effect of my indirect effect is positive and my direct effect is negative (both are significant). I cannot really talk about the proportion mediated though? If I didn't have my mediator in the model, it seems as if the total effect would be larger? Thanks for all of your clarifications.
----- Original Message -----
From: Maarten Buis <[email protected]>
Date: Tuesday, July 5, 2011 12:47 pm
Subject: Re: Re: st: binary mediation command
To: [email protected]
> On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 6:37 PM, Pina Valle <[email protected]> wrote:
> > However, proportion of total effect mediation is -.084. Would we
> still report 8.5% or does the negative mean something else?
>
> The sign is as always very important. It means that your direct and
> indirect effects have opposite signs, which makes it hard to think of
> this in terms of variance explained. So I would find an interpretation
> in terms of direct and indirect effects.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Maarten
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