Drakou, Kambitsis, Charachousou, and Tzetzis (2006) tested differences in life s

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Drakou, Kambitsis, Charachousou, and Tzetzis (2006) tested differences in life satisfaction among sport coaches. They tested differences by gender, age, marital status, and education. The results of each F-test in the following table are similar to the way in which the data were given in their article.

(a) Which factors were significant at a 0.05 level of significance? (Select all that apply.)

marital statuseducationgenderage

(b) State the number of levels for each factor.

Independent
Variables Life Satisfaction M SD F p Gender 0.68 0.409     Men 3.99 0.51     Women 3.94 0.49 Age 3.04 0.029     20s 3.85 0.42     30s 4.03 0.52     40s 3.97 0.57     50s 4.02 0.50 Marital status 12.46 0.000     Single 3.85 0.48     Married 4.10 0.50     Divorced 4.00 0.35 Education 0.82 0.536     High school 3.92 0.48     Postsecondary 3.85 0.54     University degree 4.00 0.51     Masters 4.00 0.59

Explanation / Answer

a) The Pvalue for age is 0.029 which indicates that the Age is a significant factor at 5% level of significance.

The Pvalue for Marital status is 0.000 which indicates that the Marital status is a significant factor at 5% level of significance.

While Gender and Education are not Significant Factors.

b) Gender has two levels (Male/Female)

Age has four levels.

   Marital Status has three levels.

Education has four levels.

  

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