Hi everyone,
My research question is: What are the coping strategies used to reduce academic stress in psychology students? (I am focusing on year 2 and year 3 students).
I will be using two different questionnaires. The PAS scale (Perceived Academic stress scale) and Brief Cope scale. I am really struggling on which statistical method to use to analyse my data. ANOVA? or regression analysis? factor analysis? I am not great at SPSS so any suggestions would be really helpful please! Thank you!
Hello Haleema,
Taking your RQ at face value would require taking multiple measurements of academic stress among your participants. This is required if you wish to draw inferences about changes in stress. Otherwise, you're left with having respondents try to: (a) gauge whether their stress is higher, lower, or unchanged compared to some point in time; and (b) accurately report on the degree to which they have engaged in, or rely upon, any of various coping stategies during that same time period. Human recollection is notoriously poor on a number of variables (these included).
What you could address is: which scores, if any, from the Brief Cope scale relate systematically with scores from the PAS? If you're willing to assume that all scores are at least of interval strength (and a few other points as well), it's quite possible that ordinary, least-squares regression analysis would help you to shed light on this question.
Good luck with your work.
To put it simple: You can use both regression analysis and ANOVA where they fit.
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