ANSWER TO MODULE 5 ASSIGNMENT
Student Name
Professor Name
University
Date
Anxiety and Country
Answer:
This study examined differences in anxiety level between an industrial country and a nonindustrial country. Anxiety is assessed three ways—cognitive, affective, and behavioral—with higher scores indicating higher levels of the anxiety dimensions.
Directions:
Using the SPSS data file answer the following questions. NOTE: Helpful hints are provided here for you to use while answering these questions.
1 What is the ONE independent variable in this study? What are the dependent variables?
The independent variable is COUNTRY (Industrial and Non-Industrial).
The dependent variables are Cognitive (COG), Affective (AFFECT) and Behavioral (BEHAVE).
2 Why is a one-way between-subject MANOVA appropriate to use for this research design?
HINT:
Consider the number of IVs and the number of DVs for your answer.
Here the number of independent variable is 1 but the numbers of dependent variables are more than 1 so when the number of dependent is more than 1, the appropriate technique is one-way between-subjects MANOVA
3 Did you find any errors that the researcher made when setting up the SPSS data file (don’t forget to check the variable view)? If so, what did you find? How did you correct it?
HINT:
YES! The Measures (for scale of measurement) is wrong for each of the 4 variables! You need to indicate what was wrong and what should be the correct measures.
All the four variables are shown as Nominal variable but in actual the COUNTRY should be a nominal variable and Cognitive (COG), Affective (AFFECT) and Behavioral (BEHAVE) should be scale variables. The scale of these variables is changed before the analysis.
4 Perform Initial Data Screening. What did you find regarding missing values, univariate outliers, multivariate outliers, normality?
a. What should you consider when you find these kinds of outcomes?
HINTS:
For missing values, see Case Processing Summary
Univariate
Professor Name
University
Date
Anxiety and Country
Answer:
This study examined differences in anxiety level between an industrial country and a nonindustrial country. Anxiety is assessed three ways—cognitive, affective, and behavioral—with higher scores indicating higher levels of the anxiety dimensions.
Directions:
Using the SPSS data file answer the following questions. NOTE: Helpful hints are provided here for you to use while answering these questions.
1 What is the ONE independent variable in this study? What are the dependent variables?
The independent variable is COUNTRY (Industrial and Non-Industrial).
The dependent variables are Cognitive (COG), Affective (AFFECT) and Behavioral (BEHAVE).
2 Why is a one-way between-subject MANOVA appropriate to use for this research design?
HINT:
Consider the number of IVs and the number of DVs for your answer.
Here the number of independent variable is 1 but the numbers of dependent variables are more than 1 so when the number of dependent is more than 1, the appropriate technique is one-way between-subjects MANOVA
3 Did you find any errors that the researcher made when setting up the SPSS data file (don’t forget to check the variable view)? If so, what did you find? How did you correct it?
HINT:
YES! The Measures (for scale of measurement) is wrong for each of the 4 variables! You need to indicate what was wrong and what should be the correct measures.
All the four variables are shown as Nominal variable but in actual the COUNTRY should be a nominal variable and Cognitive (COG), Affective (AFFECT) and Behavioral (BEHAVE) should be scale variables. The scale of these variables is changed before the analysis.
4 Perform Initial Data Screening. What did you find regarding missing values, univariate outliers, multivariate outliers, normality?
a. What should you consider when you find these kinds of outcomes?
HINTS:
For missing values, see Case Processing Summary
Univariate