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ORGANIZATIONAL RESEARCH METHODS
Volume 20, Issue 4, Pages 746-769Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/1094428115595869
Keywords
moderated mediation; latent moderated structural equations; confidence intervals; regression
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Currently, the most popular analytical method for testing moderated mediation is the regression approach, which is based on observed variables and assumes no measurement error. It is generally acknowledged that measurement errors result in biased estimates of regression coefficients. What has drawn relatively less attention is that the confidence intervals produced by regression are also biased when the variables are measured with errors. Therefore, we extend the latent moderated structural equations (LMS) methodwhich corrects for measurement errors when estimating latent interaction effectsto the study of the moderated mediation of latent variables. Simulations were conducted to compare the regression approach and the LMS approach. The results show that the LMS method produces accurate estimated effects and confidence intervals. By contrast, regression not only substantially underestimates the effects but also produces inaccurate confidence intervals. It is likely that the statistically significant moderated mediation effects that have been reported in previous studies using regression include biased estimated effects and confidence intervals that do not include the true values.
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