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Humor, Personality, and Stress Lab Assignment
Complete the assignment and upload to D2L by due date.
1. Demographics
Open the SPSS file "Humor_Person_Stress_Demographics_Fall_2021" in SPSS.
Make sure you are on Data View (bottom of screen).
Answer the following questions. You must copy and paste the appropriate SPSS output to receive credit. You can do this by selecting the table and copy it, clip or select and copy part of the screen, or take a picture and embed it into the document.
a. What is the mean (and standard deviation) of Males and Females?
• Mean age for Males? _________
• SD for Males? _________
• Mean age for Females? _________
• SD for Females? _________
Paste SPSS output below:
b. Use the Frequencies Output to answer the following questions:
• What is the percentage of males? _____________
• What is the percentage of females? ___________
• What is the race group that is the largest in this study? ___________
• What is the race group that is the smallest in this study (don't include "." And prefer not to answer? _______________
What does the cumulative percentage mean? _________________
Do you know what the group "." means? ______________. Describe.
Paste the SPSS output for these analyses below.
c. Paste the chart that you created in SPSS below. In a sentence or two, tell me about it.
2. Correlations
Open the SPSS file "Humor_Personality_Stress_Scored_Fall_2021" in SPSS.
Remember that you were asked to create hypotheses based on your readings?
• Humor and Stress - Look at correlations between the four types of humor styles and stress.
• Humor and Personality - Look at correlations between the four types of humor styles and one or two personality types.
Please note that for each correlation, you need to hypothesize if the variables will be significantly related (positively or negatively) or not related.
a. What are your hypotheses for the study?
b. Conduct Pearson r correlations to test each of your hypotheses.
Paste the SPSS output for these analyses below.
c. Write an interpretation in APA style for each of your hypotheses.
d. If the correlation for extroversion and affiliative humor is significant, what does that mean? Please address whether or not you think that being extroverted causes you to have an affiliative humor style.