Dear Sir/ Madam,
I collected data from 107 respondents on their three cognitive styles and five types of behavioral characters. So, every respondent gave me their response on eight variables (three cognitive styles and five behavioral characters).
Now I want to make the relations among eight variables. Please suggest me what types of statistical test (SPSS) are suitable for making the above relations.
If you have any material (with data analysis) like the above problem, please share with me.
With Regards,
Surajit Saha
(PhD Scholar, IME Department, IIT Kanpur, INDIA)
Your research question is not clear. What kind of relationships specifically are you interested?
To see simple relationships between any pair of variables, you can make a correlation matrix. If you have a more specific hypothesis you could use regression.
Your research question is not clear. What kind of relationships specifically are you interested?
To see simple relationships between any pair of variables, you can make a correlation matrix. If you have a more specific hypothesis you could use regression.
Hello Surajit,
As Potlizer-Ahles and Bauer indicate, the underlying question of interest should drive the intended analysis.
For example, if your question was, how do the selected behavioral characteristics relate to the selected style scores, you could use canonical correlation.
If you wanted to know whether individual (one at a time) style scores were predictable from the behavioral characteristics, you could use regression analysis.
If you wanted to know whether style scores were influenced by a different underlying trait than were the behavioral scores, you could try factoring the set of 8 measures.
And so on...
Good luck with your work!
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