Hello,
1. Is it true that the only requirement of inconsistent mediation to occur is that the direct effect is larger than the indirect effect?
2. And in this case, does the indirect effect needs to be significant?
In my mediation analysis I have path a = 0.10 (Significant) b = -4.73 (significant)
c' (direct effect) = 3.2 (nonsignificant) and ab (indirect effect) = -0.473 (nonsignificant)
3. Can I make any conclusion of inconsistent mediation?
4. I use pairwise deletion for my missing values, which makes the standard errors less reliable and therefore the outcome of the indirect effect as well. Therefore I wanted to try PROCESS bootstrapping with macro mediation model. But every time I add my dummy variables it gives me the following errors: see attachment.
The Range of stability of the influence of the summation (as in scalar or vector quality) for both the Indirect and Direct Effects is key to the outcome of Mediation.
Outcome of Mediation in the case under review being its consistency or reliability of the results of Mediation.
PROCEDURE AND STEPS:
0.Define Inconsistence Mediation(Results)
1. Were Inconsistence results ,(Mediation
)observed in the data?
2 What Proportion of Inconsistent results are attributable to Indirect Effects alone?
3.What level/degree of influence of the Indirect Effects produce this proportion mentioned in 2.
4Determine the level of confidence of 3 in producing 2
5.4 an answer to the question"Does Indirect Effects have to be significant in order to have Inconsistent Mediation?"
Challenges: Determination of the Inconsistent Mediation as attributable to Indirect effects alone.
The second may be the determination of the level of influence of the Indirect effects on the Mediation Process.HS it got a scalar,vector activity etc?
Need some advise please on how to interpret of this one. I have performed mediation analysis using WarpPLS and the result was little bit weird. Is it possible to have insignificant indirect effect even both path a and b were significant? The a path coefficient is 0.13 pvalue 0.009 while b path is 0.12 pvaliu 0.013. Now, Indirect effect is 0.017 with 0.335 which is not significant.