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(Question 7)
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Drakou, Kambitsis, Charachousou, and Tzetzis (2006) tested differences in life satisfaction among sport coaches. They tested differences by gender, age, marital status, and education. The results of each F-test in the following table are similar to the way in which the data were given in their article.
Independent Variables |
Life Satisfaction | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
M | SD | F | p | |
Gender | 0.68 | 0.409 | ||
Men | 3.99 | 0.51 | ||
Women | 3.94 | 0.49 | ||
Age | 3.04 | 0.029 | ||
20s | 3.85 | 0.42 | ||
30s | 4.03 | 0.52 | ||
40s | 3.97 | 0.57 | ||
50s | 4.02 | 0.50 | ||
Marital status | 12.46 | 0.000 | ||
Single | 3.85 | 0.48 | ||
Married | 4.10 | 0.50 | ||
Divorced | 4.00 | 0.35 | ||
Education | 0.82 | 0.536 | ||
High school | 3.92 | 0.48 | ||
Postsecondary | 3.85 | 0.54 | ||
University degree | 4.00 | 0.51 | ||
Masters | 4.00 | 0.59 |
(a) Which factors were significant at a 0.05 level of significance? (Select all that apply.)
age
marital status
gender
education
(b) State the number of levels for each factor.
gender | levels | |
age | levels | |
marital status | levels | |
education | levels |
Answer:-
Given That:-
Drakou, Kambitstis, Charachousou, and Tzetzis (2006) tested differences in life satisfaction among sport coaches. They tested differences by gender, age, marital status, and education. The results of each F-test in the following table are similar to the way in which the data were given in their article.
(a)
Which factors were significant at a 0.05 level of significance
Education
Gender
Age
Martial status
Alpha = 0.05
Gender, P = 0.409
P > 0.05
Not significant at 5% Level of Significance
Marital Status, P = 0.000
P < 0.05
Significant at 5% Level of Significance
Age
P = 0.029
P < 0.05
Significant at 5% level of Significance
Education
P = 0.536
P > 0.05
Not Significant at 5% level of Significance
Age
Marital Status are Significant at 5%
Age
Marital Status
(b)
State the number of Level for each factor
Gender | levels | |
Age | levels | |
Marital Status | levels | |
Education | levels |
Gender 2 levels
Age 4 levels
Marital Status 3 levels
Education 4 levels