Perhaps you could play a bit with descriptive analysis. You provide correlation as a part of descriptive statistics, but maybe the analysis of the survey results could be a good starting point. So what are the answers to your questions (distribution of answers) perhaps there are differences by age, position, type of company. Adding some plots could be useful.
First, descriptive statistics include things like distributions and their properties -- such as means and standard deviations. Correlations are not descriptive statistics because they predict that there will be a relationship between one variable and another. The suggestion that you examine relationships with age etc. is essentially a suggestion that you do more correlations. As for plots, these will give you a visual representation of the relationship that is summarized by the correlation coefficient.
David L Morgan
Thanks let me write you clearly:
I collected data from country A and B, now would like to explore differences b/w these 2 countries, how to perform descriptive analysis (which analysis) option from SPSS- to see distribution of answers on 2 countries, distractive analyses. GHRM is my IV, (44 Questions), pro environmental behavior is my DV(16 Questions) and Green life style is my Mediator (7 questions) I also have control variables of Gender, country, age, education and experience. I have to show separately a chart for country A and then for B,and colectively chart of both. can you please guide me?
It sounds like country is a moderator variable, so you have a case of what is known as "mediated moderation." This basically means that you expect your mediating variable to act differently in the two countries.
The first sep you need to take is to reduce your three variables into a set of scales. With so many items in your IV and your DV, you should probably doing Exploratory Factor Analyses to see if they each form a single factor, or whether there are multiple subscales.
After that, you will need to run a series of regressions to assess both your mediator and moderator variables.
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