rep_generic_group_id_mods_builder: Generic Individual-Level Moderator with Group Moderator...

In Coryc3133/ReputationAnalyses: Functions to model and analyze triadic (T-P1-P2) reputational data

Description

This is a generic function for building a lavaan model for individual-level moderators on two distinguishable ratings on the same target across multiple groups.. This could be P1- and P2- reports, P2- and self-reports, P1- and self-reports, or any other sets of distinguishable ratings.

Usage

rep_generic_group_id_mods_builder(rating_1, rating_2, id_mod_variable,
  interaction_term, groups = NULL, use_labs = TRUE,
  n_triads = length(rating_1), n_r1_per_r2 = 1, n_r2_per_r1 = 1)

Arguments

rating_1	Quoted column names that contain the first rating variable. This might be P1 reports if investigating moderation of hearsay consensus or self-reports for moderation of hearsay accuracy. If more than one is supplied, the target-wise order must match across variables.
rating_2	Quoted column names that contain second rating variable. For hearsay consensus or accuracy, this would be P2 reports. If more than one is supplied, the target-wise order must match across variables.
id_mod_variable	Quoted column names that contain the individual-level moderator of interest. If more than one is supplied from multiple exchangeable dyads/triads, the order must match the order of the ratings. Like P2-reports, the variable should be mean-centered to facilitate interpretability.
interaction_term	Quoted column names that contain the interaction term, or the product of the mean-centered P2-report and the mean-centered moderator variable. If more than one is supplied from multiple exchangeable dyads/triads, the target-wise order must match the order of the ratings.
groups	Vector of quoted group labels (from group-level categorical moderator).
use_labs	Logical indicating whether or not to use the group labels to create the parameter labels. If FALSE, generic labels (grp1 to grpk, where k is the number of groups) are used.
n_triads	The number of exchangeable triads in each group. By default, this is determined by counting the number of P1 reports. This parameter rarely needs to be changed.
n_r1_per_r2	The number of first ratings for each second rating. Currently, only 1:1 is supported.
n_r2_per_r1	The number of second ratings for each first rating. Currently, only 1:1 is supported.

Details

The parameters for the individual-level moderator analyses are:

rating_me

main effect of other rating; this should correspond to correlation between ratings at average level of moderator variable (if data were properly mean-centered).

mod_me

The meain effect of the moderator variable; it can be interpreted as the difference in rating_1 to differences in the individual-level moderator variable.

interaction

This is the interaction term. It indicates the extent to which the correlation between ratings depends on the moderator variable

v_rating_1

variance for first rating

v_rating_2

variance for second rating

v_mod

variance for moderator variable

v_interaction

variance for interaction term

int_rating_1

intercept for first rating

int_rating_2

intercept for second rating

int_mod

intercept for moderator variable

int_interaction

intercept for interaction term

The function can handle up to n exchangeable triads.

Value

The function returns an object of class lavaan.

Examples

data("rep_sim_data")
          # Prepare data
          moderator_data <- rep_sim_data %>%
           dplyr::mutate(B_C_agreeableness_cent = scale(B_C_agreeableness, scale = FALSE),
                  D_A_agreeableness_cent = scale(D_A_agreeableness, scale = FALSE),
                  B_iri_perspective_cent = scale(B_iri_perspective, scale = FALSE),
                  D_iri_perspective_cent = scale(D_iri_perspective, scale = FALSE),
                  B_ptXagree_interaction = B_C_agreeableness_cent*B_iri_perspective_cent,
                  D_ptXagree_interaction = D_A_agreeableness_cent*D_iri_perspective_cent)

# build a model examining perspective taking moderating hearsay consensus across two studies
agree_pt_mod_model <- rep_generic_group_id_mods_builder (rating_1 = c("C_C_agreeableness", "A_A_agreeableness"),
                                                     rating_2 = c("B_C_agreeableness_cent", "D_A_agreeableness_cent"),
                                                     id_mod_variable = c("B_iri_perspective_cent", "D_iri_perspective_cent"),
                                                     interaction_term = c("B_ptXagree_interaction", "D_ptXagree_interaction"),
                                                     groups = c("study1", "study2"))

Coryc3133/ReputationAnalyses documentation built on July 31, 2019, 8:35 a.m.