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identification number; we have named this variable
subid
. The next two
columns represent our between-subjects variables. The first variable listed
is
age
; teenagers are coded as 1 and those subjects in their middle twenties
are coded as 2;
gender
is the next variable with females coded as 1 and
males as 2. The last two variables represent the two levels of the within-
subjects variable of attraction type; the first level of attraction type is
named
emotion
and the second is named
physical
. Under each you find
the values on the dependent variable (amount of reported jealousy).
14.5.2 STRUCTURING THE DATA ANALYSIS
From the main SPSS menu, select
Analyze
➜
General Linear Model
➜
Repeated Measures
.Youselected
Repeated Measures
for the following
reason. If there are two or more cases in the study and at least one of the
independent variables is a within-subjects variable, then we must partition
the total variance of the dependent variable into a between-subjects por-
tion and a within-subjects portion. This partitioning is accomplished by
the
Repeated Measures
module of the
General Linear Model
procedure
in SPSS.
Selecting this path will open the dialog window shown in Figure 14.5.
As you will recall from Chapters 11, 12, and 13, this is the initial window
used by SPSS to have you name the within-subjects variable(s) in the
study. In this dialog window, we have specified the variable name
attract
and indicated that it has two levels.
Figure 14.5
The
GLM
Repeated Measures
initial
Define Factors
windows.