A research conducts a study to determine whether there is an association between time students spent...

A research conducts a study to determine whether there is an association between time students spent on revising the exam and level of level of exam anxiety among undergraduate. The researcher recruited 10 nursing students. To help the researcher, you need to do the hand calculation and then you use the SPSS

Time spent revision	Exam anxiety
.40	10
1.30	9
2.15	8.5
3.40	6
4.30	1.5
4.00	3
3.45	5
2.30	7
2.00	8.5
1.15	9

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Expert Solution

Hand Calculation:

Thus, correlation = -0.95

SPSS Data view

SPSS Variable view

For doing correlation, we selected Analyze -> Correlate -> Bivariate and selected variables as following in Bivarate correlations dialog box.

Following is the output obtained using SPSS

Thus, we can see that correlation value obtained using hand calculation is same as obtained using SPSS

orchestra answered 1 year ago

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