INSTRUCTIONS: During the semester, you learned how to conduct several statistic

INSTRUCTIONS:
During the semester, you learned how to conduct several statistical tests in order to understand the relationship and significance of relationships between different types of variables. Remember, everything in this class is cumulative. The knowledge you have gained every week should be used to complete this assignment. Reference back to those modules, the announcements, and the feedback received on previous assignments to pull everything you have learned in this class together to complete this assignment.
For this assignment, you will complete two sets of statistical analyses to understand relationships and significance of relationships in a data set. The first is descriiptive analysis (weeks 2-5). The second is inferential analysis (weeks 6-12). This assignment must be completed utilizing SPSS. Students are required to submit the written summary and the SPSS output.
Format: title page, 2-3 pages of content, and a reference page. Double-spaced, Times New Roman, 12pt font, 1” margins. APA formatted throughout, including statistical notations, and do not center your text. Any other formats will receive 50% off the assignment automatically.
Below is a scenario that social work practitioners might encounter in the field. Discuss descriiptive statistics first. Then determine which inferential analysis is appropriate based on the information provided. You learned how to use descriiptive statistics to describe samples, and you also learned 5 major analyses that can look at group differences (Chi-Square, Correlation, t-Test, ANOVA, and Linear Regression). Consider which types of variables you have, and which can be used for the required descriiptive and inferential analyses.
What to Include:
1. Descriiptive Statistics: 1-2 paragraphs, refer back to previous modules for how to describe your sample. For race, employment, and mental health professional, provide graphs that make sense for that data (in the word document). For severity of illness, confidence pre-, and confidence post-, provide the following measures of central tendency: mean, median, mode, SD.
2. Problem Statement: at least two paragraphs explaining why you are researching this topic and the rationale behind your H1. Properly cite at least one reference (not the textbook) supporting your rationale. Identify your IV & DV.
3. Hypotheses: properly format an H0 & H1
4. Results:
a. Overall Results
b. Reporting line
c. H0 decision
d. Discussion/interpretation
SCENARIO
Please keep in mind that this is mock data and is not drawn from any actual datasets, thus real conclusions should not be made based on the data.
Often individuals providing services in field of social work experience burnout characterized by bouts of depression and anxiety. In this scenario, you are a researcher investigating contributors to depression and anxiety, so administrators within mental health agencies can better understand how to support their mental health professionals who are experiencing burnout. You receive data from multiple mental health facilities in the area, which includes data from current and past employees. The grant funding your research requires that you look for trends in the data so you can make recommendations to help with improving outcomes.
Some of the research you have seen suggests that there is a connection between socioeconomic status (SES) and the severity of depression and/or anxiety. You hypothesize that individuals who are lower SES tend to struggle more with mental health than those from higher SES. Keep in mind you will have to determine which variables to use to represent SES and the struggle with mental health. Justify why you chose those variables. Based on the variables you choose, run an appropriate inferential analysis and report those results. Open the Final Calculation Fall 2023 Dataset in SPSS to see what data you have.
TIPS:
You have to enter the values into SPSS, based on the information given to you below. Gender values have been completed for you to get you started.
Pick the variable you think best represents SES.
Pick the variable you think best represents mental health.
Variable Explanation & Coding:
1. Gender (male=1, female=2, other=3)
2. Race (white=1, black =2, latino=3, asian=4, other=5)
3. Employment (1=No employment for more than a year, 2=no employment for less than a year, 3=part-time employment, 4=full-time employment)
4. Do you have a college degree? (1=yes, 2=no)
5. Family income (1=below poverty level, 2=at the poverty level, 3=above the poverty level)
6. Have you received a formal diagnosis for a depressive or anxiety related disorder? (1=yes, 2=no)
7. Severity of symptoms (this is a score from 1-5 that ranks how seriously they were affected by depressive or anxiety symptoms with 1 being least affected and 5 being the most affected)
8. How many times were you able to see a mental health professional (LPC, LMSW, psychologist, psychiatrist, etc.) since you began experiencing symptoms? (not including urgent care or ER visits) (this is a count of the number of times)
9. Confidence level pre-score (the respondent’s confidence rating they would experience a decrease in symptom when they entered therapy (on a scale ranging from 1 to 5)
10. Level of effort (the level of effort clients feel they are making to work their action plan (score ranging from 1 to 5)
11. Confidence post-score (the respondent’s rating on a confidence they would experience a decrease in symptoms after therapy (ranging from 1 to 5)