Week # 3 Mediation in SPSS

Cristal Vzquez Dvila

Walden University
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Week # 3 Mediation in SPSS

For this week 3 application 1 we are going to be using the data set named

USW1_RSCH_8260_statsAnxietyAdvQuant. sav file. This week assignment will make emphasis

in mediation. According to Warner (2013) mediation in statistics is the third variable or the

variable that helps understand the impact that the main independent variable has with the

dependent variable or criterion. Green and Salkind (2015) stated that mediation explains the

effect between internal and external factors. For the data set that was selected the research

question will be:

Does the high level of fear for asking for help, might increase motivation

influencing students GPA?

The variables selected are: Fear of asking for help (Fear_Dich) and Motivation

(Motivation) as the independent variables and GPA (GPA) as dependent variable. A regression

analysis will be run using the Barron and Kenny Approach. In the first step we analyze the

regression between (Fear_Dich) and (GPA) these two variables are not significant when we run

the regression model test, F(1, 333) = 0.76, p = .784. The second step we analyze the regression

and coefficient among (Motivation) and (GPA) the results F(1, 333) = .304, p = .582 in the

coefficient it tells us that motivation have a negative impact concerning GPA (see appendix

output) because contras of the coefficient of .012 in step one in the second analysis that

coefficient was -.001. In the third step of the Barron and Kenny approach we analyze the

regression among (Fear_Dich) as our predictor and (Motivation) as the constant or DV in this

analysis the results as following, F(1, 333) = .446, p = .505. Finally at the last step we analyze

the two independent variables (Fear_Dich) and (Motivation) and the impact it has on (GPA)

when we observed the results F(2, 333) = .184, p = .832 we can conclude that a difference exist
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because taking into consideration that the p value is greater than the standard alpha level of .05

the evidence is not statistically significant and it does not provide enough evidence to support

that motivation has an effect in the increase of GPA, on the contrary we can conclude since the

coefficient is -.01 we can conclude that the high level of fear of asking, might decrease

motivation having an influence on GPA. The implication for social change is that motivation

should have a greater and positive influence on students GPA and at the same time have an

impact in reducing the fear of students to ask for help.

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References

Green, S. B., & Salkind, N. J. (2015). Using SPSS for Windows and Macintosh: Analyzing and

understanding data (7th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.

Warner, R. M. (2013). Mediation . In Applied statistics: from bivariate through multivariate

techniques (2nd ed., pp. 645-687). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications.
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Appendix

Output

Model Summary
Adjusted R Std. Error of the
Model R R Square Square Estimate

1 .015a .000 -.003 .3931

a. Predictors: (Constant), Fear of Asking for Help

ANOVAa
Model Sum of Squares df Mean Square F Sig.

1 Regression .012 1 .012 .076 .784b

Residual 51.460 333 .155

Total 51.472 334

a. Dependent Variable: GPA

b. Predictors: (Constant), Fear of Asking for Help

Coefficientsa
Standardized
Unstandardized Coefficients Coefficients

Model B Std. Error Beta t Sig.

1 (Constant) 3.111 .028 109.383 .000

Fear of Asking for Help .012 .043 .015 .275 .784

a. Dependent Variable: GPA

Model Summary
Adjusted R Std. Error of the
Model R R Square Square Estimate

1 .030a .001 -.002 .3930

a. Predictors: (Constant), Motivation Score

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ANOVAa
Model Sum of Squares df Mean Square F Sig.

1 Regression .047 1 .047 .304 .582b

Residual 51.425 333 .154

Total 51.472 334

a. Dependent Variable: GPA

b. Predictors: (Constant), Motivation Score

Coefficientsa
Standardized
Unstandardized Coefficients Coefficients
Model B Std. Error Beta t Sig.

1 (Constant) 3.145 .056 55.856 .000

Motivation Score -.001 .001 -.030 -.552 .582

a. Dependent Variable: GPA

Model Summary
Adjusted R Std. Error of the
Model R R Square Square Estimate

1 .037a .001 -.002 17.73882

a. Predictors: (Constant), Fear of Asking for Help

ANOVAa
Model Sum of Squares df Mean Square F Sig.

1 Regression 140.246 1 140.246 .446 .505b

Residual 104783.640 333 314.666

Total 104923.886 334

a. Dependent Variable: Motivation Score

b. Predictors: (Constant), Fear of Asking for Help
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Coefficientsa
Standardized
Unstandardized Coefficients Coefficients

Model B Std. Error Beta t Sig.

1 (Constant) 43.469 1.284 33.867 .000

Fear of Asking for Help -1.307 1.958 -.037 -.668 .505

a. Dependent Variable: Motivation Score

Model Summary
Adjusted R Std. Error of the
Model R R Square Square Estimate

1 .033a .001 -.005 .3935

a. Predictors: (Constant), Motivation Score , Fear of Asking for Help

ANOVAa
Model Sum of Squares df Mean Square F Sig.

1 Regression .057 2 .029 .184 .832b

Residual 51.415 332 .155

Total 51.472 334

a. Dependent Variable: GPA

b. Predictors: (Constant), Motivation Score , Fear of Asking for Help

Coefficientsa
Standardized
Unstandardized Coefficients Coefficients

Model B Std. Error Beta t Sig.

1 (Constant) 3.140 .060 52.307 .000

Fear of Asking for Help .011 .043 .014 .255 .799

Motivation Score -.001 .001 -.030 -.541 .589

a. Dependent Variable: GPA