Video 5 Chapter 7 Moderation

Moderation Analysis

Testing moderation with interaction terms in SEMinR: two-stage vs product-indicator approaches, interpreting the interaction coefficient, and visualizing simple slopes.

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What you'll learn

  • Specify an interaction term in SEMinR using interaction_term()
  • Choose between two-stage and product-indicator estimation, and know why it matters
  • Interpret the interaction coefficient correctly — sign, magnitude, and significance
  • Produce simple-slopes plots for presentation

R practice in this video

  • > Use version control — even a solo analysis deserves a Git history

Coming soon

This tutorial pairs with Video 5 in the series. Full write-up will land when the video is published. Chapter 7 of Hair et al. (2026) has the theoretical treatment, and the code file seminr-primer-v2-chap7.R has the runnable example.