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PSY 520 SPSS Assignment 4

 

Before you begin the assignment:

 

  • Read Chapter 15 in your Beginning Behavior Research: A Conceptual Primer textbook and Chapter 18 in your Discovering Statistics Using IBM SPSS Statistics textbook.
  • Review the video tutorial for an overview of chi-square analyses in SPSS.
  • Accessand open the Attachment SPSS dataset.

 

An overview of the dataset:

 

This dataset represents hypothetical data from a study that examined the relationship between infant attachment style as measured in infancy and education obtained when measured in adulthood. That is, the same participants had their attachment style measured as young children, and then researchers measured the participants’ level of education obtained many years later.

 

Here is some more information about the variables in this hypothetical dataset:

 

  • Number:The ID number of the participant
  • Sex: Participants’ sex, with 1 = male and 2 = female
  • Infant_Attachment: Participants’ infant attachment style, with 1 = secure, 2 = anxious, and 3 = avoidant
  • Education: Participants’ level of education obtained, with 1= high school, 2= undergraduate, and 3= graduate

 

Questions:

 

1) Briefly describe a research situation that would call for a chi-square analysis. Be sure to explain each variable and the possible values of each variable.

 

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2a) Generate a cross table of Infant_Attachmentand Education.

 

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2b) From these results, which group attachment style seems to be most related with obtaining high levels of education?

 

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3a) Conduct a chi-square test to see if Infant_Attachmentand Education are independent from one another.

 

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3b) Document the results of this test in APA style. Be sure to explicitly state whether or not the two variables are independent. Refer to How to Report a Chi-Square Test Result (APA) for guidance.

 

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4a) Run the chi-square again, but this time add sex as a layer.

 

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4b) Based on these results, does the relationship between Infant_Attachmentand Education hold for both males and females? How do you know?

 

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