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PSYC 355
SPSS HOMEWORK 5 INSTRUCTIONS
CORRELATION
Part 1:
Green & Salkind: Lesson 31, Exercises 1–4
The following helpful tips are numbered to correspond with the exercise number to which they
refer (a dash indicates that no tips are needed):
1. ----------(2 pts for output and 2 pts each for a–c)
Descriptive Statistics
Mean Std. Deviation N
Overall quality as an
instructor
4.1670 .59731 50
Overall course quality 3.9310 .64664 50
Number of publications 8.40 11.348 50
Number of times cited by
other authors
49.52 57.272 50
Correlations
Overall quality
as an instructor
Overall course
quality
Number of
publications
Number of times
cited by other
authors
Overall quality as an
instructor
Pearson Correlation 1 .638** .232 .312*
Sig. (2-tailed) .000 .105 .028
N 50 50 50 50
Overall course quality
Pearson Correlation .638** 1 .347* .372**
Sig. (2-tailed) .000 .014 .008
N 50 50 50 50
Number of publications
Pearson Correlation .232 .347* 1 .828**
Sig. (2-tailed) .105 .014 .000
N 50 50 50 50
Number of times cited by
other authors
Pearson Correlation .312* .372** .828** 1
Sig. (2-tailed) .028 .008 .000
N 50 50 50 50

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**. Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed).
*. Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed).
2. Answer this question in sentence form. Include the correlation (r) and degrees of
freedom, the p value,and whether these values indicate a significant correlation between
the variables or not. (2 pts)
r(48)= .638, p= 0.000001 (or p<0.1) df -2
This is a significant positive linear correlation between the overall course quality
and the number of publications. With a correlation significant at the 0.01 2tail, and
a significant at the 0.05 level (2-tail)
3. All homework “Results sections” must follow the example given in the Course Content
document “Writing Results of Statistical Tests in Current APA Format” (Note: you do
not have to refer to a figure). (2 pts)Using a correlation rating between the overall
course quality, the numberof publications, and the times the material was cited.
This is a significant positive linear correlation between the overall course quality
and the number of publications. With a correlation significant at the 0.01 2tail, and
a significant at the 0.05 level (2-tail) with an r(48) =.638, p=0.000001 (or p<.01)

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---------- (2 pts)
4.
Part 2:
1. A clinical psychologist would like to determine whether there is a relationship between
observer ratings of children’s anxious behaviors and scores on an established diagnostic
interview assessing anxiety disorders. He administers the diagnostic interview to 28 children
and records these scores. He then trains an observer to independently rate anxiety-specific
behaviors for each of the 28 children. These ratings are totaled for an overall “anxious
behavior” score. On both the interview and the behavioral ratings, a higher score indicates
higher levels of anxiety. These scores are listed in the table on the following page. Conduct a
Pearson correlation coefficient analysis to determine whether there is a relationship
between the interview scores and the behavioral ratings for this group of children.
The steps will be the same as the ones you have been practicing in Part 1 of the assignment—
the only difference is that you are now responsible for creating the data file as well.

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