Let's say my predictor values are: husbands' anxiety, wives' anxiety, husbands' satisfaction, and wives' satisfaction. I am conducting SEM. I am grand mean centering my predictors because it was recommended for interpretation purposes. The 2 satisfaction variables are essentially covariates and my main interest is in the anxiety variable.

Where I am getting lost is in conceptually understanding the value of grand mean centering variables for interpretation using dyadic data. I know it is worthwhile for multicollinearity (or so i've read). Since I am working at the dyadic level, it makes sense to grand mean center per variable (e.g., mean of both husbands' and wives' anxiety gets subtracted from husbands' and wives' individual scores). But since satisfaction is a variable measured on a different scale (and therefore yields a different mean), I am not seeing the purpose of grand mean centering for interpreting and comparing across my predictors. What will grand mean centering do for my beta coefficients that will make them more interpretable? I am guessing it might make results more interpretable per variable (eg for comparing husband's and wives' anxiety), but how exactly given this dyadic situation?

Thank you in advance, kind people!!

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