Pearson’s Correlation Coefficient

With a independent variable of family involvement on 0-10 scale and a dependent variable of family enjoyment on a 0-10 scale. The correlation between the enjoyment of activities between involvement of activities is .59 which is a moderate positive correlation. This is shown significant on the 0.01 level.

For SPSS:

  1. Analyze
  2. Correlate
  3. Bivariate
  4. Move your independent and dependent over to the variables box
  5. *if your independent is not interval ratio you need to pick a variable that is
  6. Click ok

For R:

Input the following into the script file then highlight both lines and hit run

z<-y[is.na(y$v17)==0 & is.na(y$v18)==0,]

cor(z$v18,z$v17)