I see this posted in three groups, and so I am posting it back to all three. On Thu, 10 Feb 2000 17:00:37 +0800, Alice Kwan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to know which statistical method should I use for my > research with SPSS. > > My research aims at examining the causal relationship of sport training > program to academic results. > Thus, I collected the academic results before and after the training > program from sport participants and also the non-sport participants as > the control group. > Besides, as I want to know how the training program affects the > academics, I also collected the pretest and posttest data of self-esteem < snip > This reminds me of a request from a couple of weeks ago, to which someone responded that the question seemed to require some basic education and coursework. For staters, that is the advice I offer here. I will add the information that "self-esteem" is a horribly abused term -- there once was a lot of really-bad research that would have been avoided by careful logical considerations; which of 5 or so different ideas do you have in mind? Bandura's "self-efficaciousness" sounds like heavy jargon, but offers some success in being specific. Here is a link that leads also to papers that you can read on the subject, if you are that serious. http://www.emory.edu/EDUCATION/mfp/effpage.html -- Rich Ulrich, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pitt.edu/~wpilib/index.html =========================================================================== This list is open to everyone. Occasionally, people lacking respect for other members of the list send messages that are inappropriate or unrelated to the list's discussion topics. Please just delete the offensive email. For information concerning the list, please see the following web page: http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ ===========================================================================
