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SPSS - Moderation and Mediation
SPSS - Moderation and Mediation
Centering
Find the mean of the variable you want to center (you already know how to do this in
SPSS)
Go to Transform then Compute
In the box that says target variable rename the variable you want to center (if your
original variable is ragree then cragree would be a good new variable name)
Double click the variable that you want to rename (this should make it go into the
numeric expression box).
Subtract the mean from this variable, so if the mean for ragree is 50 you would have an
expression that looks like this: ragree-50
Click ok, you should see a new variable cragree in your dataset
b
(Constant) 63.19
Exam Performance 0.28
General Self-Efficacy 8.15
ExamXGen -0.30
Moderator
IV Low Medium High
Low 50.88134 57.80734 64.73334
Medium 59.117 63.19 67.263
High 67.35266 68.57266 69.79266
Once youve placed the correct values into those cells, follow the
directions listed at the bottom of the excel spreadsheet.