I installed the PROCESS Custom Dialog v3.5 by Andrew F. Hayes on two different versions of SPSS (26 and 27, both on Windows 10) running SPSS as an administrator and using the 'extension' menu. The program then appeared under the 'regression' menu and seemed correctly installed until I runned my first mediation model (model 4, 1 mediator, 3 covariates, around 400 obs). The processor started running but nothing appeared on the outputs until I stopped the processor and forced Windows to close SPSS.
Has anyone had the same experience and knows how to fix the problem? Perhaps I did something wrong in installing the custom dialog program?
Eventually, I tried with the syntax but SPSS does not recognise the 'process' command and, after checking on the manual, I didn't understand how this should be modified in PROCESS v.3.5 compared to the older versions (while I understood the other changes in tne syntax). Could someone clarify this for me?
Thank you very much for your help!
Hi Lucia Sideli ,
I can confirm that PROCESS v3.5 works fine using SPSS v26 on Windows 10. Have you tried another mediation model, perhaps a simpler one with less variables and observations, just to test whether the macro output something?
If you want to try using PROCESS via syntax, first you have to extract and open the "process.sps" syntax file, then select all the code (CTRL+A) and press Run (the green play button in the toolbar). This will load PROCESS in memory for SPSS, so that you will be able to run it as a syntax command until you close SPSS itself. Then you can close the process syntax and open a new one where you can write and run your PROCESS commands.
Best regards,
Emanuele
PROCESS operates on both Windows and Mac versions of SPSS and SAS. PROCESS for SPSS requires SPSS version 19 or later but works best on versions 22 and above.
Thanks a lot Emanuele, eventually I find out that the error was in variables' name (too long) and I had just to wait until the process was completed. Best
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