Dear all
I ran an experiment where physiological datas for participants (n=147) were taken during a stress task, as well as their level of anxiety at each occasion and a time invariant IV (negative affectivity).
DV : HRV (not transform and not normal)
IV : occasion with 3 levels (categorical); anxiety at each occasion (anx89. continuous and centered at the mean) and affect suppression(AS45.continuous and centered at the mean).
I ran the following model :
and obtain the following results :
I'am interested by the affect suppression effect related to the change of anxiety at each occasion. So my focus is on the
interaction.
After reading some similar question on the statist, I understand that when anxiety is constant, one point increase on affect suppression lead to .30 increase in HRV.
When using margins to compare slopes and mean HRV when AS45 and anx89 are ±1SD above or below the mean, I understand that, in this case, anxiety is average across occasions which is not what I want. Am I correct in this interpretation? if so, how could I test the anxiety increase or decrease between T1 and T2 on the influence of affect suppression on HRV??
thanks a lot for your help.
I ran an experiment where physiological datas for participants (n=147) were taken during a stress task, as well as their level of anxiety at each occasion and a time invariant IV (negative affectivity).
DV : HRV (not transform and not normal)
IV : occasion with 3 levels (categorical); anxiety at each occasion (anx89. continuous and centered at the mean) and affect suppression(AS45.continuous and centered at the mean).
I ran the following model :
mixed HRV i.occasion##c.anx89##c.AS45 || id:,mle cov(un) vce(robust)
Code:
. mixed hrv i.occasion##c.AS45##c.anx89 ||id:,mle cov(un) vce(robust) note: single-variable random-effects specification in id equation; covariance structure set to identity. Performing EM optimization ... Performing gradient-based optimization: Iteration 0: Log pseudolikelihood = -1661.8501 Iteration 1: Log pseudolikelihood = -1661.8501 Computing standard errors ... Mixed-effects regression Number of obs = 399 Group variable: id Number of groups = 147 Obs per group: min = 1 avg = 2.7 max = 3 Wald chi2(11) = 206.67 Log pseudolikelihood = -1661.8501 Prob > chi2 = 0.0000 (Std. err. adjusted for 147 clusters in id) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Robust hrv | Coefficient std. err. z P>|z| [95% conf. interval] ------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------- occasion | 2 | -8.300005 1.597175 -5.20 0.000 -11.43041 -5.1696 3 | 8.443544 1.153635 7.32 0.000 6.18246 10.70463 | AS45 | .1817955 .1598155 1.14 0.255 -.1314371 .4950281 | occasion#c.AS45 | 2 | -.3145298 .1646679 -1.91 0.056 -.6372729 .0082134 3 | .0727873 .100163 0.73 0.467 -.1235286 .2691032 | anx89 | -1.451473 1.221485 -1.19 0.235 -3.84554 .9425945 | occasion#c.anx89 | 2 | 2.057651 1.411346 1.46 0.145 -.7085371 4.823839 3 | .0981878 1.531299 0.06 0.949 -2.903103 3.099478 | c.AS45#c.anx89 | -.1681481 .1042543 -1.61 0.107 -.3724828 .0361865 | occasion#c.AS45#c.anx89 | 2 | .303042 .1245039 2.43 0.015 .0590189 .5470652 3 | .2802108 .1363958 2.05 0.040 .01288 .5475417 | _cons | 59.60581 1.838499 32.42 0.000 56.00242 63.2092 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Robust Random-effects parameters | Estimate std. err. [95% conf. interval] -----------------------------+------------------------------------------------ id: Identity | var(_cons) | 368.2115 42.61907 293.4769 461.9773 -----------------------------+------------------------------------------------ var(Residual) | 102.4341 12.70524 80.32801 130.6236
occasion#c.AS45#c.anx89_2
After reading some similar question on the statist, I understand that when anxiety is constant, one point increase on affect suppression lead to .30 increase in HRV.
When using margins to compare slopes and mean HRV when AS45 and anx89 are ±1SD above or below the mean, I understand that, in this case, anxiety is average across occasions which is not what I want. Am I correct in this interpretation? if so, how could I test the anxiety increase or decrease between T1 and T2 on the influence of affect suppression on HRV??
thanks a lot for your help.