Question: It is important to be able to identify when items in a scale need to be reversed before being added to give a total score.

It is important to be able to identify when items in a scale need to be reversed before being added to give a total score. It is essential that this is done correctly, otherwise the values obtained for the total scale do not mean anything.
Part 2a: The Perceived Control of Internal States scale (Pallant,2000) is shown below. List the 6 items in the questionnaire that would need to be reversed so that high total scores would indicate high levels of perceived control.
Part 2b-2d. Use the survey.sav data set to create new total subscale scores for the Perceived Control of Internal States scale. Run the descriptive statistics (mean, standard deviation, minimum, maximum) for the new subscales. Provide SPSS case summary/descriptive output tables for each new variable that provides the mean, standard deviation, minimum, and maximum for each of the new variables pcemot, pcthou, and pcphys.
2b-Calculate the Emotion subscale by adding items pc1 to pc6. Call this new variable pcemot. Provide SPSS case summary/descriptive output tables for the new variable that provides the mean, standard deviation, minimum, and maximum for the new variable pcemot.
2c--Calculate the Thoughts subscale by adding items pc7 to pc12. Call this new variable pcthou. Provide SPSS case summary/descriptive output tables for the variable that provides the mean, standard deviation, minimum, and maximum for each of the new variable pcthou.
2d--Calculate the Physical subscale by adding items pc13 to pc18. Call this new variable pcphys. Provide SPSS case summary/descriptive output tables for the variable that provides the mean, standard deviation, minimum, and maximum for each of the new variable pcphys.

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