Timeline for Independent variable becomes insignificant after adding control variable. Mediation is significant but doesnt make sense
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| May 9 at 18:25 | comment | added | user9011032 | Thanks, I made a mistake in the original post! I changed it. | |
| May 9 at 18:24 | history | edited | user9011032 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 9 at 18:16 | comment | added | Sointu | Yes, it is as you explain in this comment, but I read your original as if you had it the other way around: "Because the IV gets insignificant, when adding the CV, my independent variable seems to be the mediator and my CV seems to be the IV/X" - so it sounds like you made CV the X and original IV the mediator, although related to your comment example, your CV would be "z" and IV would remain as "x", right? | |
| May 9 at 18:12 | comment | added | user9011032 | Are you sure? I read again about the steps for Mediation according to Baron & Kenny, and it looks to me that if you have a significant relationship between x and y and then you add another variable (lets call it z), and the coefficent of z becomes significant and x becomes insignificant, shouldn't z be the mediator? On the one hand I am pretty sure of this, on the other hand maybe you are right, and this is where my problem is coming from | |
| May 9 at 17:48 | comment | added | Sointu | Just a small note, I don't know which way you entered the variables in lavaan but based on "Because the IV gets insignificant, when adding the CV", shouldn't CV be the probable mediator and not IV? | |
| May 9 at 17:24 | answer | added | Peter Flom | timeline score: 1 | |
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| S May 9 at 15:49 | history | asked | user9011032 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |