SPSS for Psychologists: Fifth Edition

by Brace; Nicola

• ISBN13: 9781848726000
• ISBN10: 1848726007
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-07-23
• Publisher: Routledge Acade

Summary

With over 50,000 copies sold, the new edition of this best-selling guide carefully leads the user through the process of using SPSS version 20 to analyze psychological data. The authors review the basic issues regarding design and proceed through all of the major statistical techniques used in psychology, from introductory to advanced level. Noted for its comprehensive coverage, clarity, and flexibility, this book is an indispensable resource for students at all levels. With its student-friendly layout, accessible style, and unbeatable coverage, it provides a step-by-step tour of SPSS. Written especially for psychology students, this book shows readers how to get the most out of SPSS. A number of sample exercises, datasets and other useful resources can be found at www.palgrave.com/psychology/brace. This 5th Edition: features a color layout and chapter tabs for easy reading and navigation displays annotated screenshots and key 'tip' boxes to help students track their progress and avoid common pitfalls provides expanded coverage of graphing and guides students through reporting the outcome of statistical analysis sets SPSS in the context of research design and statistics, and discusses the rationale and use of each test throughout. Key Features of the new edition: Fully updated to cover SPSS version 20 and backward-compatible with other versions New material on bivariate (simple) regression and expanded coverage of multiple regression Two new SPSS data files for several complex statistical inferential tests New 'How to report results' boxes guide students through their findings Accessible layout and writing style, perfect for students The book reviews advanced statistical material such as ANCOVA, factor analysis, logistic regression, and discriminant analysis as well as issues related to research design, data entry, data handling, data manipulation and modification in SPSS; how to calculate basic statistical procedures using SPSS; tests of difference for two sample designs, tests of correlation, and tests for nominal and categorical data; and tests for experiments involving complex designs or for data obtained using surveys. SPSS for Psychologists, 5theditioncovers SPSS version 20, but is also appropriate for earlier versions. The book highlights the differences between the versions and includes coverage of reliability measures, partial correlations, and using statistics for scale constructions.

Author Biography

Nicola Brace is Senior Lecture in Psychology at the Open University, UK. Richard Kemp is Associate Professor in Psychology at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Rosemary Snelgar is Principal Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Westminster, UK.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xiii
Dedication	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
Psychological research and SPSS	p. 3
Guide to the statistical tests covered	p. 14
Working with SPSS	p. 15
Starting SPSS	p. 17
How to exit SPSS	p. 20
Some useful option settings in SPSS	p. 21
Data entry in SPSS	p. 23
The Data Editor window	p. 25
Defining a variable in SPSS	p. 26
Entering data	p. 38
Saving a data file	p. 41
Opening a data file	p. 43
Data entry exercises	p. 45
Answers to data entry exercises	p. 48
Exploring data in SPSS	p. 51
Descriptive statistics	p. 53
The Descriptives command	p. 54
The Viewer window	p. 58
The Frequencies command	p. 62
The Explore command	p. 67
Introducing graphing in SPSS	p. 76
Chart Builder	p. 78
Graphboard Template Chooser	p. 84
Data handling	p. 89
An introduction to data handling	p. 91
Sorting a file	p. 92
Splitting a file	p. 94
Selecting cases	p. 96
Recoding values	p. 100
Computing new variables	p. 105
Counting values	p. 108
Ranking cases	p. 110
Data file for scales or questionnaires	p. 113
Tests of difference for two sample designs	p. 117
An introduction to the t-test	p. 119
The independent t-test	p. 120
The paired t-test	p. 129
An introduction to the nonparametric equivalents of the t-test	p. 133
The Mann-Whitney test	p. 134
The Wilcoxon test	p. 137
Tests of correlation	p. 141
An introduction to tests of correlation	p. 143
Producing a scattergram	p. 144
Pearson's r. parametric test of correlation	p. 152
Spearman's rs nonparametric test of correlation	p. 156
Tests for nominal data	p. 161
Nominal data and dichotomous variables	p. 163
Chi-square tests versus the chi-square distribution	p. 165
The goodness-of-fit chi-square	p. 166
The multi-dimensional chi-square	p. 167
The McNemar test for repeated measures	p. 180
Analysis of variance	p. 189
An introduction to Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)	p. 191
One-way between-subjects ANOVA	p. 201
Two-way between-subjects ANOVA	p. 209
One-way within-subjects ANOVA	p. 213
Two-way within-subjects ANOVA	p. 219
Mixed ANOVA	p. 229
Some additional points	p. 235
Planned and unplanned comparisons	p. 238
Nonparametric equivalents to one-way ANOVA: KruskalùWallis and Friedman	p. 246
Bivariate and multiple regression	p. 253
An introduction to regression	p. 255
Bivariate regression	p. 256
Multiple regression	p. 264
Performing multiple regression on SPSS	p. 273
Analysis of covariance and multivariate analysis of variance	p. 293
An introduction to analysis of covariance	p. 295
Performing analysis of covariance on SPSS	p. 299
An introduction to multivariate analysis of variance	p. 309
Performing multivariate analysis of variance on SPSS	p. 313
Discriminant analysis and logistic regression	p. 321
Discriminant analysis and logistic regression	p. 323
An introduction to discriminant analysis	p. 325
Performing discriminant analysis on SPSS	p. 328
An introduction to logistic regression	p. 341
Performing logistic regression on SPSS	p. 342
Factor analysis, and reliability and 351dimensionality of scales
An introduction to factor analysis	p. 353
Performing a basic factor analysis on SPSS	p. 363
Other aspects of factor analysis	p. 377
Reliability analysis for scales and questionnaires	p. 382
Dimensionality of scales and questionnaires	p. 388
Beyond the basics	p. 393
The Syntax window	p. 395
Option settings in SPSS	p. 402
Getting help in SPSS	p. 404
Printing from SPSS	p. 406
Incorporating SPSS output into other documents and exporting output	p. 408
Glossary	p. 411
References	p. 427
Appendix	p. 431
Index	p. 465
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