Hello,
I am a PhD student for the Chicago School of Professional Psychology working on my dissertation and I hope that someone can answer my question regarding reference groups or dummy coding.
My study has a moderated-mediation framework which resulted to me utilizing Process by Hayes.
Part of my variables is Gender which I coded 1 = Male and 2 = Female in my survey. I am having difficulty determining which one will be the reference group for this variable as the book only describes coding of 0 and 1 where the 0 becomes the reference group.
I have exhausted the information on the book of Hayes on Process and I have done the due diligence of researching about this but I am not having any luck in finding out the answer.
Will be 1 = male become a default 0? or is there a hard rule about the reference group for Hayes Process?
Thank you kindly for any of your input.
Have a look at http://claudiaflowers.net/rsch8140/Hayesprocess.pdf
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19312458.2016.1271116?scroll=top&needAccess=true&journalCode=hcms20
http://processmacro.org/faq.html
Muhammad Ali, thank you so much! I truly appreciate your response. I found the answer under the FAQ of Process. This was such a great help.
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