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Crosby Lab 8: Multiple Regression Lab Assignment

Background

Religious sacrifice is a common part of all major world religions. People may give up something they want to do (e.g., abstaining from certain foods) or do things they prefer not to do (e.g., praying at inconvenient times) for religious reasons. Some people make religious sacrifices because they want to avoid feeling guilty or avoid being shamed by their religious community. However, the Bible teaches that religious sacrifice should be made with the right motivation, not "reluctantly or under compulsion" (2 Cor. 9:7). In fact, it is possible that the motivation behind the sacrifice is just as important as the sacrifice itself. Sacrificing because we want to grow closer to God (i.e., "approach motives") may result in spiritual growth, whereas sacrificing to avoid guilt or judgment (i.e., "avoidance motives") may not. For this lab assignment, you will conduct a hierarchical multiple regression analysis using authentic longitudinal data collected from a sample of 226 religious adults. We will determine whether and how their motivation for religious sacrifice predicts their spiritual growth over 30 days controlling for the number of religious sacrifices they made.

Spirituality was measured at Time 1 and Time 2 using the Daily Spiritual Experience Scale, which contains 16 items (e.g., "I feel God's love for me, directly") with response options ranging from 1 (Never) to 6 (Many times a day). Composite scores were calculated as the mean of the 16 item responses. Religious sacrifice was measured at Time 2 by listing 10 common sacrifices and asking participants how many times they had made each sacrifice during the previous 30 days. Responses were scored 0 (Never) to 5 (5 or more times). Composite scores were calculated as the sum of the 10 items (i.e., how many total sacrifices they had made during the previous 30 days). Approach motivation was measured at Time 2 by offering three possible reasons (e.g., "to grow closer to God") and asking participants to indicate how important each reason was in influencing their decision to make a religious sacrifice. Response options ranged from 1 (Not at all important) to 4 (Extremely important). Composite scores were calculated as the mean of the three items.

In the first step of the model, you will include Spirituality at Time 1 and the total number of religious sacrifices as statistical control variables. In the second step of the model, you will add approach motivation. The purpose of this lab is to determine whether and how approach motivation predicts adults' spiritual growth controlling for total religious sacrifices. To complete this lab, download and open the file called Religious_Sacrifice.sav within SPSS.

Hypotheses

Before we write our hypotheses, it is helpful to write the equation of the model. Substitute the actual variable names (from the dataset) for the xs and ys below:

Step 1: