Hello dear STATALIST forum,
I hope you have started the new year well and can assist me with a problem.
I am currently working on a project in which I am trying to observe the impact of child poverty on work values. My focus is on mediating effects through personality and parenting style.
All my variables are ordinal (quasi-metric) scaled. I have calculated a Structural Equation Model (SEM) with multiple mediators (Big 5 & Supp. Parenting Scale) and interpreted it using the MEDSEM command.
During a presentation in a team meeting, it was suggested that I should try to replicate the same relationships using the KHB method.
The results differ significantly. While occasional mediation effects (according to Baron/Kenny and Zhao, Lynch & Chen) are visible in the SEM model, this is not the case in the KHB Decomposition.
I have the following questions:
Best regards,
Marcel
I hope you have started the new year well and can assist me with a problem.
I am currently working on a project in which I am trying to observe the impact of child poverty on work values. My focus is on mediating effects through personality and parenting style.
All my variables are ordinal (quasi-metric) scaled. I have calculated a Structural Equation Model (SEM) with multiple mediators (Big 5 & Supp. Parenting Scale) and interpreted it using the MEDSEM command.
During a presentation in a team meeting, it was suggested that I should try to replicate the same relationships using the KHB method.
The results differ significantly. While occasional mediation effects (according to Baron/Kenny and Zhao, Lynch & Chen) are visible in the SEM model, this is not the case in the KHB Decomposition.
I have the following questions:
- What can account for the differences?
- Is there an error in my SEM or KHB input?
- Which results should I report? Is there a good reason to prefer SEM/MEDSEM results over KHB results?
Best regards,
Marcel
Code:
*SEM (Bootstrap & Robust standard Errors) *Mediation-Effects of Childhood poverty (pgarmut_1_bis_5) via Personality/Parentingstyle (gew ope extr vert neur loc m_par f_par) on Importance of Work-Life-Balance (BW_wl_bala) bootstrap, reps(1000): sem (BW_wl_bala<-gew ope extr vert neur loc m_par f_par pgarmut_1_bis_5 mpgbilzeit fpgbilzeit fpgexpue mpgexpue migback_re dehhinc_10 bez gejobbt Berufl_Ausb sex) (gew<-pgarmut_1_bis_5) (ope<-pgarmut_1_bis_5) (extr<-pgarmut_1_bis_5) (vert<-pgarmut_1_bis_5) (neur<-pgarmut_1_bis_5) (loc<-pgarmut_1_bis_5) (m_par<-pgarmut_1_bis_5) (f_par<-pgarmut_1_bis_5), nocapslatent vce(robust) medsem, indep(pgarmut_1_bis_5) med(loc) dep(BW_wl_bala) mcreps(5000) rit rid zlc *KHB khb ologit BW_wl_bala gew ope extr vert neur loc m_par f_par mpgbilzeit fpgbilzeit fpgexpue mpgexpue migback_re dehhinc_10 bez gejobbt Berufl_Ausb sex || pgarmut_1_bis_5
