Unit 6 · Report it in APA style
How to report a correlation in APA style
Report Pearson and Spearman correlations from SPSS in APA 7 style, including degrees of freedom and formatting.
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Reporting a correlation
A correlation write-up is short: direction, strength, the variables, then the numbers.
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There was a strong positive1 correlation between revision hours and exam score, r(48)2 = .543, p < .0014, with students who revised more tending to score higher.
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Direction and strengthPositive or negative, then weak, moderate or strong.
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r(df)Degrees of freedom for a correlation are N − 2. With 50 people, df = 48.
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No leading zeroWrite .54, not 0.54. Values that can't go above 1 (r, p) drop the zero.
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pSPSS showed .000, so write p < .001.
For Spearman, write rs (with a subscript s) instead of r.
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