A general multilevel SEM framework for assessing multilevel mediation

Psychological Methods

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 209-233

  Preacher, Kristopher J ^a   Zyphur, Michael J ^b   Zhang, Zhen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mediation; Multilevel modeling; Multilevel SEM; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CAUSALITY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGY; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 77956838713     PISSN: 1082989X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0020141     Document Type: Article

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