SOC Load the GSS2012 data set and use the Correlate command to get correlations between age (the independent or X variable) and four dependent (or Y) variables: church attendance (attend), number of children (childs), self-rated social position (rank), and hours of TV watching each day (tvhours).

● Click the SPSS icon on your desktop.

● Load the GSS2012 database.

● From the main menu bar, click Analyze, Correlate, and Bivariate.

● In the “Bivariate Correlations” dialog box, find age, attend, childs, tvhours, and rank in the variable list on the left and move them to the “Variables”
window on the right.
● Click OK and the output will be printed to the SPSS Output screen.
Focus on the relationships with age and record the values for r for each relationship below. Calculate r2 and record those values as well.
attend childs prestige tvhours r r 2 r r 2 r r 2 r r 2 age

a. Write a summary of these relationships in which you note the strength and direction of each relationship with age. What percentage of the variance in each dependent variable was explained by age?

b. Which relationships were statistically significant at the 0.05 level? To find out, look at the second line in each cell of the correlation matrix (“Sig.

2-tailed”). Values below 0.05 are significant.