ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on how to build and interpret a path model and shows that how to calculate direct, indirect, and total effects. It proposes how path analysis and nested modeling are related and suggests how researchers used path analysis to study racial/ethnic differences in infertility. The chapter argues how a researcher used path analysis to study the social origins of distress. It introduces another technique to growing arsenal. The chapter allows to model these complex interrelationships using a visual map to which authors will add standardized regression coefficients. The technique is called path analysis. Although Percentage of Household Income is an independent variable explaining percentage of housework, we could also treat it as a dependent variable. In this model, notice that percentage of household income has an arrow going to it and it has an arrow going away from it. There are conflicting messages about the relationship between weight and happiness.
