Good day, everyone!
I'm doing a research on Personality Traits, Reading Habit, and Writing Achievement. My data were collected using Likert-scale questionnaires (for personality traits and reading habit) and a writing test. My purpose is to find the correlation between personality traits and reading habit, personality traits and writing, and reading habit and writing.
Does anyone know what kind of statistical analysis I should use? Thank you, have a nice day!
Dear Siti Khairunnisa
I think if your dataset is large enough, you can use Pearson correlation test or Spearman correlation test.
Dear Siti Khairunnisa
Based on the scores and likert scale value, you can also create 2-3 categories for each variable. Then you can use chi-square analysis to check the association. Thanks
Siti Khairunnisa , you need to apply correlation coefficients for ordinal data, as e.g. Spearman's rho or Kendall's Tau.
For correlation analysis, you could do Pearson Product-Moment Correlation (i.e., Pearson’s r) if your data meet parametric assumptions. If not, you could do Spearman’s Rank-Order Correlation. For further details on both, you might check out the following.
KSU Libraries. (2020, September 3). LibGuides: SPSS tutorials: Pearson correlation. https://libguides.library.kent.edu/spss/pearsoncorr
Lund Research Ltd. (2018). Spearman's rank order correlation using SPSS statistics - A how-to statistical guide by Laerd statistics. SPSS Statistics Tutorials and Statistical Guides | Laerd Statistics. https://statistics.laerd.com/spss-tutorials/spearmans-rank-order-correlation-using-spss-statistics.php
Good luck,
Siti Khairunnisa, for people to be able to help you effectively, I think you need to provide information about how you were measuring personality and reading habits. For example, did you use multi-item scales for each of those variables, and, if so, were there subscales on those scales?
Also, what did scores on the writing test look like? Were they pass/fail, or percentages, or what?