Name: Dawn Overfield
Year: sophomore
Major: psychology
Hometown: Orchard Park, NY
1.) Background: I feel as thought there will be a relationship between the two from personal experiences that the children that are raised with married parents tend to start drinking later than do those children that are raised in a divorced household.
Null- There is no a relationship between family situation that a person was raised and the age at which they started drinking alcohol.
Alternative- There will be a relationship between family situation that a person was raised and the age at which they started drinking alcohol.
Variables: How would you describe the family structure in which you were raised?
If you have drunk alcohol more than once or twice in your life what age did you start?
Scored:The age at which you drank was recoded into one number from 14-15, 19-20, and so on, while the family structure was changed from one parent household - the number 1, and so on.
Statistical Test:Pearson R correlation will be used to either reject the null or fail to reject the null based on a specific significance level, of either .01 or .05.
Analysis: The completed survey files were condensed to contain only the variables relevant to my study by deleting those variables which I did not need. Then the variables were all changed to numeric values in SPSS, and recoded if necessary. Then they could be correlated by doing bivariate correlation in SPSS
2.) Background: I think there is a relationship between the two because, I know when I don't get enough hours my grades drop. Therefore, I feel thouse who recieve a minimum amount of sleep will in turn have a lower GPA.
Null- There is no relationship between the amount of hours slept and a persons overall GPA a person recieves.
Alternative- There is a relationship between the amount of hours slept and the overall GPA a person recieves.
Variable: hours slept, and the person overall GPA score
Scored: I had to recode the overall GPA from about an A: 4.0- into a 4.0 and so on, while I had to change the hours slept from 7-Jun into 7.
Statistical test:The Pearson R correlation will be used to either reject the null or fail to reject the null based on a specific significance level, of either .01 or .05.
Analysis: The completed survey files were condensed to contain only the variables relevant to my study by deleting those variables which I did not need. Then the variables were all changed to numeric values in SPSS, and recoded if necessary. Then they could be correlated by doing bivariate correlation in SPSS.
3.) Background: I feel as though these two are related because usually when one is introduced to alcholic beverages, smoking is usually introduced at the same time. At the younger age, it is the time of experimenting and toacco/alcohol are the easiest to get ahold of
Null- There is no relationship between students who start drinking alcohol at a young age and students smoking tobacco products at a young age.
Alternative- There is a relationship between students starting to drink at a young age and students smoking tobacco products at a young age.
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Variables If you have drunk alcohol, at what age was it first consumed and if you have smoked tobacco, at what age were there first used.
Scored: Both questions were answered with the same set of answers- "I have never or only once or twice tried alcohol/recreational drugs", which I recoded to "1", "14 or younger", which I recoded to "14", "15-16", which I recoded to "15.5", "17-18", which I recoded to "17.5", "19-20", which I recoded to "19.5", and "21 and over", which I recoded to "21".
Statistical test: The Pearson R correlation will be used to either reject the null or fail to reject the null based on a specific significance level, of either .01 or .05.
Analysis: The completed survey files were condensed to contain only the variables relevant to my study by deleting those variables which I did not need. Then the variables were all changed to numeric values in SPSS, and recoded if necessary. Then they could be correlated by doing bivariate correlation in SPSS.
Psy201Fall2005
