Mplus Code for Measurement invariance and LCS model

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Reference:

Li, W.-D., Wang, J., Allen, T., Zhang, X., Yu, K., Zhang, H., Huang, J. L., Liu, M., & Li, A. (2024). Getting under the skin? Influences of work–family experiences on personality trait adaptation and reciprocal relationships. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 126(4), 694–718. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000476

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Latent change score model

A Replication of Matusik et al (2021)

The results and Mplus code can be found in this repo:

Mplus Code of  Steffen et al (2021)

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Mplus syntax for hypothesis 1 sensitivity analysis

TITLE:	
    Merger paper H1

DATA: 
    FILE IS 'g:/my drive/merger/latent.dat';

VARIABLE:	
    NAMES ARE merge size js5 js7 abs5 abs7 ss5 ss7;
    USEVARIABLES ARE merge size js5 js7;
    
MODEL: 
    !Latent True Scores
    js1 BY js5@1;
    js2 BY js7@1;

    !Specifies the mean and variance of js1.
    [js1]; js1;
    !Fixes the mean and variance of js2 to 0.
    [js2@0]; js2@0;
    [js5-js7@0];
    !Sets the residual variances of js5 and js7 to be equal and labels them as resvar.
    js5-js7 (resvar);

    !Autoregressions
    js2 ON js1@1;

    !Latent Change Factors
    jsd BY js2@1;
    !Fixes the mean and variance of jsd to 0.
    [jsd@0];
    jsd@0;

    !Hypothesis
    jsd ON merge size;


OUTPUT:
    STAND CINT;
,