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Centering
Find the mean of the variable you want to center (you already know how to do this in
SPSS)
Go to Transform then Compute
In the box that says target variable rename the variable you want to center (if your
original variable is ragree then cragree would be a good new variable name)
Double click the variable that you want to rename (this should make it go into the
numeric expression box).
Subtract the mean from this variable, so if the mean for ragree is 50 you would have an
expression that looks like this: ragree-50
Click ok, you should see a new variable cragree in your dataset
(Constant)
Exam Performance
General Self-Efficacy
ExamXGen
b
63.19
0.28
8.15
-0.30
Exam Performance
General Self-Efficacy
-1SD
-19.02
-0.50
0SD
0.00
0.00
+1SD
19.02
0.50
50.88134
59.117
67.35266
57.80734
63.19
68.57266
64.73334
67.263
69.79266
IV
Low
Medium
High
Now, you have all of the info you need to create your plot. Click on the box at
the bottom of excel designated Interaction Plot
Place the values that excel generated for you in the appropriate boxes. So
for example, the value that represented 1 Sd for the IV and 1sd for the
moderator was 50.88. We see in table below, that the cell corresponding both
low IV values and low Moderator values has a value of 50.88.
Moderator
Low
Medium
High
50.88134 57.80734 64.73334
59.117
63.19
67.263
67.35266 68.57266 69.79266
Once youve placed the correct values into those cells, follow the
directions listed at the bottom of the excel spreadsheet.