Drakou, Kambitsis, Charachousou, and Tzetzis (2006) tested differences in life satisfaction among sport coaches. They tested differences by gender, age, marital status, and education. The results of each F-test in the following table are similar to the way in which the data were given in their article.
| Independent Variables |
Life Satisfaction | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | SD | F | p | |
| Gender | 0.68 | 0.409 | ||
| Men | 3.99 | 0.51 | ||
| Women | 3.94 | 0.49 | ||
| Age | 3.04 | 0.029 | ||
| 20s | 3.85 | 0.42 | ||
| 30s | 4.03 | 0.52 | ||
| 40s | 3.97 | 0.57 | ||
| 50s | 4.02 | 0.50 | ||
| Marital status | 12.46 | 0.000 | ||
| Single | 3.85 | 0.48 | ||
| Married | 4.10 | 0.50 | ||
| Divorced | 4.00 | 0.35 | ||
| Education | 0.82 | 0.536 | ||
| High school | 3.92 | 0.48 | ||
| Postsecondary | 3.85 | 0.54 | ||
| University degree | 4.00 | 0.51 | ||
| Masters | 4.00 | 0.59 | ||
(a) Which factors were significant at a 0.05 level of significance? (Select all that apply.)
marital statusgenderageeducation
(b) State the number of levels for each factor.
| gender | levels | |
| age | levels | |
| marital status | levels | |
| education | levels |
ANSWER:
Given that,
a)
The two factors are 'Age and Martial status' are significant.Because these are variables are less then 0.05
b)
Number of levels is not equal to number of independent variables -1
| gender | 2 levels |
| age | 4 levels |
| marital status | 3 levels |
| education | 4 levels |
(a) Factors that were significant at a 0.05 level of significance are:
Marital status (p = 0.000)
(b) Number of levels for each factor:
Gender: 2 levels (Men and Women)
Age: 4 levels (20s, 30s, 40s, and 50s)
Marital status: 3 levels (Single, Married, and Divorced)
Education: 4 levels (High school, Postsecondary, University degree, and Masters)
Drakou, Kambitsis, Charachousou, and Tzetzis (2006) tested differences in life satisfaction among sport coaches. They tested...