Problem Set 1: Linear Regression Analysis

Research Scenario: A community psychologist is interested in whether people's self-reported degree of religious belief predicts their self-reported feelings of well-being. She administers two questionnaires to 17 individuals, one of which measures degree of religious beliefs (scores range from 1-20 with higher scores indicating higher degree of belief), and another which measures feelings of well-being (scores range from 1-25 with higher scores indicating stronger feelings of well-being). The psychologist compiles the information listed in the table below.

Using this table, enter the data into a new SPSS data file and run a linear regression analysis to test whether religious belief predicts feelings of well-being. scatterplot with a regression line to show the relationship between the variables.

1. Paste SPSS output.
2. Results section based on your analysis including independent and dependent variables, confidence interval, effect size, 1 or 2 tailed and the p value.

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