Kenny (1986). If the significance of c is not used as a prerequisite to further examination of the paths, then this causal steps approach is sometimes called a test of joint significance. Unbeknownst to many, the causal steps approach has been criticized heavily on multiple grounds. Most...
Some authors argue for waiving the X-Y test in some gression, has not migrated to consumer researchers unaware situations (Collins et al. 1998; Kenny 2003; MacKinnon et of its relevance to their own widely shared interests in theory al. 2000; Shrout and Bolger 2002). We maintain that the...