SPSS data entry & which test?!?

Question

Hi all,

I'm studying moral development (SRMS SCORE) and play opportunities (TIME SCORE) and the differences between urban and rural areas.

My variables are as follows: age, gender, region, SRMS moral dev score, and time playing with social interaction, time for play without social interaction.

I have the data for each participant (n=292) entered in SPSS, except for the time variables... these I only have the average for the 2 regions; urban and rural.

I was thinking that I might run a t test? or would ANOVA be better?

I don't know how to enter the data for 'time' variables as I only have the average for each region, and not individual like all my other variables... can anyone advise me on how to rectify this or work with this?

I really appreciate any help that you can give... I'm at my wits end!!

Thank you

Answer 1

ANOVAs woul;d probably be better; you explore the interaction with post-hoc tests. I would do a different sheet for the time periods for each region, and do a simple T-test. That's just how I would do it though.

Well, actually, how I would do it is do both, but I would prefer to report the ANOVAs for the main variables and a T test for the average time per region.