Comparing Methods for Multilevel Moderated Mediation: A Decomposed-first Strategy

The purpose of this study is to propose a decomposed-first strategy for multilevel moderated mediation and to compare the performance of three moderated mediation approaches in multilevel structural equation modeling. The following approaches were compared in simulations to test coefficients that were decomposed level by level: orthogonal partitioning with centering within cluster, random coefficient prediction, and latent moderated structural...