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Assignment 1 - Multiple Regression Moderation or Mediation in SPSS

Earlier this week, you practiced testing for moderation and mediation and, ideally, used the Collaboration Lab to ask, answer, and otherwise address any questions you had regarding moderation and mediation. In this Assignment, you apply what you learned to answer a social research question using multiple regression, including testing for possible moderation or mediation. Remember that you must still address all the assumptions for multiple regression.

NOTE - You will choose either moderation or mediation for your statistics assignment where you conduct an analysis in SPSS. You need to use the other test for your journal article critique this week. This means if you do moderation in your SPSS assignment then you would choose an article for the journal article critique assignment where the author(s) used mediation. If you choose mediation for your SPSS assignment, then you would choose an article where the author(s) used moderation.

To prepare

• Review the datasets provided.
• Construct a research question based on one of those datasets.
• Use either moderation or mediation in your multiple regression analysis to answer your research question.

The Assignment - Based on the research question you created, complete the following tasks:

1. Fit a multiple regression model, testing whether a moderating or mediating variable affects the relationship between the predictor and the outcome variable. Think about whether or not the model will meet assumptions.

2. Fit the model, testing for moderation or mediating relationship between variables.

3. Analyze the output, determining whether moderation or mediation was statistically significant and how to interpret that result.

4. Reflect on possible implications of social change.

Write a 1- to 2-paragraph analysis in APA format that includes your data output and addresses each of the tasks listed above.

Assignment 2 - Article Critique (Multiple Regression Moderation or Mediation)

For this Assignment, you will critically evaluate a scholarly article related to moderation or mediation.

NOTE - You will choose either moderation or mediation for your statistics assignment where you conduct an analysis in SPSS. You need to use the other test for your journal article critique this week. This means if you do moderation in your SPSS assignment then you would choose an article for the journal article critique assignment where the author(s) used mediation. If you choose mediation for your SPSS assignment, then you would choose an article where the author(s) used moderation.

To prepare -

• Review the Article Critique Assignment Guide in the Walden Library, listed in the Week 2 Learning Resources.
• Search the Walden Library for a quantitative article that applies moderation or mediation testing.

The Assignment -

Write a 2- to 3-page critique of the research you found in the Walden Library that includes responses to the following prompts:

• Why did the authors use moderation/mediation in their multiple regression model?
• Do you think moderation/mediation is the most appropriate choice? Why or why not?
• Did the authors display the results in a figure or table?
• Does the results table stand alone? In other words, are you able to interpret the study from it? Why or why not?

Attachment:- Assignment File & DataSet.rar