Table 8.
Power in Detecting the Indirect Path Varies by Stability Under Misspecified Lag.
| Stability | Model | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Direct Path | X | M | CSM | SM | DM | CLPM3 | CLPM5 | MCSMa | MLMb |
| 0 | 0.36 | 0.36 | 0.02 | 0.10 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.99 | 1.00 |
| 0.36 | 0.50 | 0.05 | 0.10 | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 1.00 | 0.98 | |
| 0.50 | 0.36 | 0.05 | 0.29 | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.04 | 0.99 | 1.00 | |
| 0.50 | 0.50 | 0.12 | 0.27 | 0.05 | 0.03 | 0.04 | 1.00 | 0.99 | |
| 0.36 | 0.36 | 0.36 | 0.15 | 0.19 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.99 | 0.99 |
| 0.36 | 0.50 | 0.28 | 0.25 | 0.04 | 0.01 | 0.03 | 0.99 | 1.00 | |
| 0.50 | 0.36 | 0.20 | 0.49 | 0.06 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.97 | 1.00 | |
| 0.50 | 0.50 | 0.48 | 0.64 | 0.11 | 0.04 | 0.05 | 0.99 | 1.00 | |
Note. Lag = 0 corresponds to data simulated under MCSM, Lag=1 corresponds to data simulated under MLM. The a, b, and y paths are 0.36 for all conditions. All path coefficients are fixed. Powers less than 0.80 are boldfaced. CSM = cross-sectional mediation; SM = sequential mediation; DM = dynamic mediation; CLPM = cross-lagged panel mediation; MCSM = multilevel cross-sectional mediation; MLM = multilevel longitudinal mediation.
a
MCSM uses all 100 people and all 100 time points for analysis. bMLM uses all 100 people and all 100 time points for analysis.