Hi. I just posted a question on h. regression. Maybe it would
be useful to provide some specifics of my analysis. My DV is
a measure of parent involvement in the education of their disabled
child. I actually enter only 3 groups of IVs, not 4. My DVs were
grouped and entered in the analyses thusly:
1. a measure of family SES;
2. 2 measures of child functioning; and
3. 2 measures of social support (1 family support, 1 school support).
In equation 1 -- SES is highly significant.
In equation 2 --SES significance dropped by ns (.156) and the child functioning
measures are
both significant at the .05 level.
In equation 3 -- SES and the child functioning measures become insignificant and the 2
newly
measures both are highly significant at the .01 level or better.
Overall the
r-squared of these models are .06, .15. and .42 so the support
measures are
really the critical predictors of parent involvement here.
So the question is should I be interpreting the reg coefficients only from equation 3
or for each
IV as it was first entered into the analysis?
Paul
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