Hi,
I am just starting off with Spss and statistics for my dissertation project. I would appreciate it if anybody can explain what type of test should I use for the following scenario:
My study aims to see if anxiety has an effect on the spread of misinformation online.
I am going to measure the anxiety levels of participants with the Dass 21 questionnaire which I think is an ordinal scale as it has a four point selection from 'doesn't apply to me' to 'strongly apply to me'. however this questionnaire also measures for stress and depression, would it effect my results if I ignore these scores and just employ the anxiety scores?
After the test the participants will be split into two group which are normal level anxiety and high level anxiety. They will then be presented with fake and real headlines and asked which are they most likely to share online.
DV: anxiety
IV: sharing activity
what design is this?
what's the best test to use here?
an explanation would be highly appreciated.
Thanks
I am just starting off with Spss and statistics for my dissertation project. I would appreciate it if anybody can explain what type of test should I use for the following scenario:
My study aims to see if anxiety has an effect on the spread of misinformation online.
I am going to measure the anxiety levels of participants with the Dass 21 questionnaire which I think is an ordinal scale as it has a four point selection from 'doesn't apply to me' to 'strongly apply to me'. however this questionnaire also measures for stress and depression, would it effect my results if I ignore these scores and just employ the anxiety scores?
After the test the participants will be split into two group which are normal level anxiety and high level anxiety. They will then be presented with fake and real headlines and asked which are they most likely to share online.
DV: anxiety
IV: sharing activity
what design is this?
what's the best test to use here?
an explanation would be highly appreciated.
Thanks