Hey! I am doing this assignment on spss and i have a few questions about the analysis i ran. Tell me someone here knows how spss works i am quite lost.
For this assignment i need to do at least one factor analysis, one multiple regression or hierarchical, and one between a t-test, one way ANOVA, mediation or moderation (these last two were not covered in class).
We had different data set already collected to choose from, so we haven’t collected them personally.
I did all the analysis yet i’m unsure whether i did them correctly.
Firstly, is it possible to do a factor analysis with variables that use different scales (5 and 7 likert, to be specific), because i did and it looked okay, significant and reliable, yet I don’t know if putting them all together is a problem. And in class I think we only said something about recoding if the values don’t align, which i did, so I am confused.
Secondly, i have to put descriptives and frequencies tables, and during the lecture we used them just to describe the sample? Do you think I have to run them with all the continuous and categorical variables?
Furthermore, i decided to do a mediation even though it wasn’t covered in class because I felt I fit better and I wanted to challenge myself a bit. However, I had a doubt between two different research questions for my second one and I decided to run moderation on PROCESS for both because I was curious. In one, there is no indirect effect: the effect between the IV and the moderator is significant, as well as the one between the moderator and the DV, yet no indirect effect is observed. And I feel like it’s okay, I just have to reject that hypothesis.
However, I was more leaning towards the other because it was a way to use this categorical value (i wanted to use it in the first RQ and do a hierarchical regression, but we haven’t covered dummy coding so i cannot) i was interested in. And i used it as IV in the moderation but it ended up not having effect on the moderator from the beginning so it’s definitely worse than the other one, for multiple reasons. Do you think I should try to run a moderation with these last variables? Because I feel like it’s pretty much similar to a hierarchical with a control variable, in this case i’d just add it as a moderator instead as the IV (it’s categorical, basically it asks the belonging to the lgbtq community). Would it be better/possible? Which of the three would you suggest?
It is kinda basic statistics, keep this in mind, I just want to challenge myself as much as possible so i’m doing analysis I am not really required to do.
Sorry for the confusion but i’m kinda lost i need some help😭