Figure 3
Analyses on the role of latent factors of job attainment genetically mediating educational attainment and income. (A) Fitting Genomic Structure Equation Modelling (Genomic SEM). Educational attainment, job attainment, and income are observed variables based on GWAS summary statistics. Overall job requirement is a latent (unobserved) variable. Beyond the path on overall job requirement , a direct path from educational attainment and income was not significant. As the model did not converge by including all six job characteristics simultaneously, we excluded complexity since its composite nature and high correlations with other traits. (B) A two-step factor score path analysis. The scores of three factors to present cognitive, emotional, and physical job requirement from exploratory factor analysis for job attainment, were calculated. The income was regressed on educational attainment and factors scores. Standardized beta coefficients are presented, as well as the test statistics for the modelling.
