Title: The Effect of College Student Involvement in Romantic Relationship to Student’s

GPA

1. Identify the independent and dependent variables of the study.

Variables:

 Independent Variable (IV): College Student Involvement in Romantic

Relationship

 Dependent Variable (DV): Student’s GPA

2. Construct an appropriate inferential statement of the problem.

Inferential Statement of the problem:

Is there a significant difference in the GPA of college students between students involved

in a romantic relationship and students who are not involved in a romantic relationship?

3. Write a null hypothesis.

Null Hypothesis:

There is no significant difference in the GPA of college students between students

involved in a romantic relationship and students who are not involved in a romantic

relationship.

4. Make an alternative hypothesis.

Alternative Hypothesis:

There is a significant difference in the GPA of college students between students

involved in a romantic relationship and students who are not involved in a romantic

relationship.
5. List the HYPOTHETICAL given separating 2 groups (each group must have at least 25

participants)

Hypothetical given:

SPSS
Data View Variable View
Student GPA Romantic Student GPA Romantic Relationship
Relationship Involvement
Involvement
98 1 67 not involved in a
romantic relationship
67 2 99 Involved in a romantic
relationship
99 1 98 not involved in a
romantic relationship
98 2 98 Involved in a romantic
relationship
98 1 76 not involved in a
romantic relationship
76 2 80 Involved in a romantic
relationship
80 1 90 not involved in a
romantic relationship
90 2 80 Involved in a romantic
relationship
80 1 89 not involved in a
romantic relationship
89 2 78 Involved in a romantic
relationship
78 1 98 not involved in a
romantic relationship
98 2 98 Involved in a romantic
relationship
98 1 87 not l in a romantic
relationship
87 2 86 Involved in a romantic
relationship
86 1 85 not involved in a
romantic relationship
85 2 88 Involved in a romantic
relationship
88 1 94 not involved in a
romantic relationship
94 2 90 Involved in a romantic
relationship
90 1 98 not involved in a
romantic relationship
98 2 97 Involved in a romantic
relationship
97 1 96 not involved in a
romantic relationship
96 2 95 Involved in a romantic
relationship
95 1 93 not involved in a
romantic relationship
93 2 94 Involved in a romantic
relationship
94 1 95 not involved in a
romantic relationship
95 2 78 Involved in a romantic
relationship
78 1 89 not involved in a
romantic relationship
89 2 78 Involved in a romantic
relationship
78 1 67 not involved in a
romantic relationship
67 2 76 Involved in a romantic
relationship
76 1 75 not involved in a
romantic relationship
75 2 87 Involved in a romantic
relationship
87 1 82 not involved in a
romantic relationship
82 2 81 Involved in a romantic
relationship
81 1 91 not involved in a
romantic relationship
91 2 93 Involved in a romantic
relationship
93 1 93 not involved in a
romantic relationship
93 2 90 Involved in a romantic
relationship
90 1 98 not involved in a
romantic relationship
98 2 97 Involved in a romantic
 relationship
97 1 97 not involved in a
romantic relationship
97 2 95 Involved in a romantic
relationship
95 1 95 not involved in a
romantic relationship
95 2 95 Involved in a romantic
relationship
95 1 94 not involved in a
romantic relationship
94 2 94 Involved in a romantic
relationship
94 1 93 not involved in a
romantic relationship
93 2 99 Involved in a romantic
relationship
99 1 99 not involved in a
romantic relationship
99 2 97 Involved in a romantic
relationship
97 1 96 not involved in a
romantic relationship
96 2 93 Involved in a romantic
relationship
93 1 88 not involved in a
romantic relationship
88 2 86 Involved in a romantic
relationship
86 1 83 not involved in a
romantic relationship
83 2 85 Involved in a romantic
relationship
85 1 84 not involved in a
romantic relationship
84 2 89 Involved in a romantic
relationship
89 1 89 not involved in a
romantic relationship
89 2 67 not involved in a
romantic relationship
 6. Find the mean and standard deviation of each group from the hypothetical given.

A.) Mean:

B.) Standard Deviation:

GROUPS MEAN STANDARD DEVIATION

Involved 89.80 7.439
Not involved 89.30 8.754

7. Show Shapiro-Wilk test p value result – find out whether each group is skewed or is

normally distributed

Shapiro-Wilk test p value:

Tests of Normality
Romantic Relationship Kolmogorov-Smirnova Shapiro-Wilk
Involvement of College Statistic df Sig. Statistic df Sig.
Students
Involved in a romantic
.166 30 .033 .903 30 .010
College Student's relationship
GPA not involved in a
.164 30 .039 .866 30 .001
romantic relationship
a. Lilliefors Significance Correction

P value: 0.010% or 1% <5% or 0.05% - in both groups, scores are not normally

distributed
 8. Show Levene’s test for homogeneity of variances per group – find out whether each

group is skewed or is approximately normally distributed

Levene’s test

Independent Samples Test

Levene's Test for Equality of Variances

F Sig.

Equal variances assumed .061 .806

College Student's GPA
Equal variances not assumed

P value: 0.806% or 80.6% >5% or 0.05% - approximately normal

9. If all assumptions are not violated, test mean differences using t-test independent. If there

is any violation, then use Mann Whitney U test.

Mann Whitney U test

10. Show the t-test p value result.

T-test p value:

T-test p value: 0.796% or 79.6% > 5%

11. What is the appropriate interpretation (statistically significant or not statistically

significant) when p value is compared to the selected margin of error?

Interpretation:

12. What is the decision (retain or reject null hypothesis)?

Decision:

Fail to reject the null (H0) because the result is not significant – retain (H0)

13. Conclusion:

14. Recommendation: