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Mediation Analysis in SPSS and R

Background

In the past few months I have been working on my Master’s Thesis and I just completed the data analysis part, leaving the discussion and conclusion parts. For some reason, this data analysis is conducted in SPSS and I’m always wondering if I could repeat it in R. The topic of my Master’s Thesis is “The influence of IT Capability on New Product Development Performance”. Specifically, my research question is “To what extent does IT Capability relate to NPD Performance and to what extent does NPD Process mediate the relationship?”.

The data was collected with a questionnaire that is designed based on a thorough literature review. After data cleaning, construct validity tests with Exploratory Factor Analysis and construct reliability tests, the latent constructs are computed and the enhanced operational model is presented below:

Figure 1. Operational Conceptual Model
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