This is a real data file, condensed from a study that was conducted in Educational Psychology students. The study was designed to explore the factors that impact on respondents' psychological adjustment and wellbeing. The survey contained a variety of validated scales measuring constructs that the extensive literature on stress and coping suggest influence people's experience of stress. The scales measured self-esteem, optimism, perceptions of control, perceived stress, positive and negative affect, and life satisfaction. A scale was also included that measured people's tendency to present themselves in a favourable or socially desirable manner. The survey was distributed to members of the general public in Melbourne, Australia and surrounding districts. The final sample size was 439, consisting of 42 per cent males and 58 per cent females, with ages ranging from 18 to 82 (mean=37.4).

Please open the files: Survey sav and Survey codebook from BB under SPSS Lab Assignments. The first file is the SPSS dataset you will use for Analysis. The second file is the Questionnaire used. The second page shows the codes used to code the answers in SPSS. Please use it to refer to SPSS Variables.

Regression

A researcher is interested tocomparetwo control measures Total Social Desirability and Total Mastery in terms of their ability to predict Total life satisfaction. You will conduct two separate linear regression models.

1. Conduct a regression analysis in SPSS (use "How to perform regression in SPSS" document for guide or the lecture slide for lab) withTotal Social Desirabilityas your Independent Variable and Total life Satisfaction as the Dependent Variable.Copy and paste only the Model Summary Table, the ANOVA table and the Coefficients Table from SPSS Outputbelow (3 points).