Spearman Correlation on SPSS with Write Up (APA Style)

Learn how to complete a Spearman correlation analysis on SPSS and how to report the results in APA style (including table).

0:00 What is a Spearman correlation analysis?
1:11 Setting up the data file
5:35 Checking monotonicity
8:09 Running the Spearman correlation analysis
8:30 Interpreting and reporting the results

If you wanted to report that the assumption of monotonicity was checked (i.e., the assumption that as one variable goes up, the other goes up or down), you could say something like, “An inspection of scatterplots (Appendix A) suggested that the assumption of monotonicity was met.”

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