Research question: How does working cause anxiety in college students?
Hypothesis: working as a college student does increase the levels of anxiety.
if I'm using the question what type of job you have? A)full time B)part time C)seasonal and D)internship and using a the question how often do you feel anxious? using a scale 1-10
Hi,
It depends on your research question(s), and hypothesis,
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Dear Anonymous researcher
I think that now you have two variables: first is student work (yes, No), Second is anxiety (scores). The first variable is nominal variable and the second variable is scale variable. Now to test your Hypothesis, you can use 2 independent samples T-test to identify the difference in anxiety between working students and non-working students.
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I agree with Nasser Said Gomaa Abdelrasheed , you can use independent sample T-test to identify the difference of the levels of anxiety among several groups of students.
Please note that the first variable is a categorical variable with four levels (A= full time, B= part time, C= seasonal, and D= internship) and should be set as your independent variable. The second variable is the level of anxiety and should be set as your dependent variable. In this case, we want to know whether the level of anxiety between those categories of students are different significantly. So, the hypotheses for this example can be expressed as:
H0: the means difference of the level of anxiety between each group is equal to zero
H1: the means difference of the level of anxiety between each group is not equal to zero
While inputting your data in SPSS, don't forget to transform the first variables into numerical codes (i.e., A=1, B=2, C=3, and D=4). Further, you will get two boxes after applying this test, the first section is "Group Statistics" and the second is "Independent Samples Test". Further details regarding the step-by-step operation, interpreting the results, and taking the right conclusion by using SPSS can be found in the example section at the bottom of the page of the following link:
https://libguides.library.kent.edu/SPSS/IndependentTTest
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If you were to measure anxiety as a scale variable (where means would be calculated), I'd use One-way ANOVA followed by post-hoc analyses if Fcalculated were larger than Ftabulated (sig < .05).
Thanks,
Ali