My moderator is Social Capital. A questionnaire (5 points Likert scale) of 16 questions is used to measure it. (IV = entrepreneurial intentions, DV= entrepreneurial behaviour, M= Social Capital)
My research focuses on if respondents acquired social capital through a (former) membership at a student association. So after the 16 SC questions, the last question was: Have you gained social capital through (former) membership of a student association? (also a 5 point Likert scale)
Therefore, my question is, how do I compute/combine these 2 different aspects into one value for each respondent so I can use it to test my hypothesis.
Thank you in advance!!
If I got it right, what you're looking for is how to compute index variables. A simple YouTube search should pop up quite a lot of tutorials for you. Here's a few that I found:
- https://youtu.be/VAcM_aLHHlc
- https://youtu.be/6jzzw8nMSwI
- https://youtu.be/pJT9Ch93XSg
Good luck!
Hayk Smbatyan So if I understand correctly, I computed the 16 SC questions into 1 variable and the question about student association is also a variable. Then the only thing I have to do is to compute those 2 variables?
But then, for example, if the 16 questions about SC have a score of 4.5 and the answer if he gained that knowledge about SC through a student association is 0. After computing this variable the score is 2.25. It doesn't feel like its the correct way.
Alternatively, run a factor analysis using the 16 questions, as well as the last question, and see how they are grouped together! It may reveal multiple components. This would be the statistically correct thing to do!
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