Hi there I am seeking some help at the moment with analysing my dissertation data.
I am investigating the effect of personality traits on psychological well being and physical activity levels in office workers.
I have done psychological well being as an overall rating as a continuous variable. With a Pearson’s correlation with the Big Five Personality traits.
Physical activity however is ordinal, low-moderate. So I cannot do correlations?
I would ideally like to analyse PA and PWB separately with their relationship to the traits?
If it is standard then You can get correlations.
but have you done with your own instrument or a standard one?
Physical activity has different parameters and PWB looks similar.
check your hypotheses and proceed sir.
Rose Kavitha it isn’t my own no, it is the IPAQ-short form, the calculations at the end gives me a categorical score of low, moderate or high. I want to analysis the relationship of these results with the different traits of personality.
Correlations can only be done with continuous variables?
Use multivariate regression analysis. I can give you an example that you can apply:
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