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SPSS - Moderation and Mediation
SPSS - Moderation and Mediation
SPSS - Moderation and Mediation
Centering
Find the mean of the variable you want to center (you already know how to do this in
SPSS)
Go to “Transform” then “Compute”
In the box that says “target variable” rename the variable you want to center (if your
original variable is “ragree” then “cragree” would be a good new variable name)
Double click the variable that you want to rename (this should make it go into the
“numeric expression” box).
Subtract the mean from this variable, so if the mean for ragree is 50 you would have an
expression that looks like this: ragree-50
Click “ok”, you should see a new variable “cragree” in your dataset
b
(Constant) 63.19
Exam Performance 0.28
General Self-Efficacy 8.15
ExamXGen -0.30
Now, you have all of the info you need to create your plot. Click on the box at
the bottom of “excel” designated “Interaction Plot”
Place the values that “excel” generated for you in the appropriate boxes. So
for example, the value that represented –1 Sd for the IV and –1sd for the
moderator was 50.88. We see in table below, that the cell corresponding both
low IV values and low Moderator values has a value of 50.88.
Moderator
IV Low Medium High
Low 50.88134 57.80734 64.73334
Medium 59.117 63.19 67.263
High 67.35266 68.57266 69.79266
Once you’ve placed the correct values into those cells, follow the
directions listed at the bottom of the excel spreadsheet.