Can I run a moderation analysis with an ordinal (likert scale) predictor variable?

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Marius Ole Johansen

If you treat the Likert-scale predictor as continuous, that's okay in many cases as long as you check that the relationship is approximately linear and that the residuals of your model are roughly normally distributed and homoscedastic (equal variance)

Izzy Waller

Okay thank you!