INTERPRETING PEARSON CORRELATION SPSS OUTPUT
happiness
happiness
sleep
1
.821**
Pearson Correlation
Sig. (2-tailed)
.034
Example Correlation Results Write Up in APA 7th Format
Using a sample of graduate students from Concordia University
Chicago, a Pearson correlation was conducted to assess a
N
sleep
Pearson Correlation
100
100
.821**
1
possible relationship between happiness (M = 26.39, SD = 1.63)
and daily sleep hours (M = 8.14, SD = 1.07). The correlation result
indicates that there is a strong, positive, and statistically
Sig. (2-tailed)
.034
N
100
significant relationship between happiness and sleep r(98) =
100
.821, p = .034. The coefficient of determination (r2sleep*happiness)
reveals that 67.4% of the variance in happiness can be explained
**. Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed).
by the variance in sleep hours. On average, graduate students at
CUC who reported more hours of sleep reported higher levels of
This is an actual SPSS output. Your output will be structured in a
similar manner.
Degrees of freedom for correlation (N 2)
Note the plain English interpretation at the end. Very important! Please
include in your results.
happiness.
Mean and SD for each interval or ratio variable
come from the descriptive statistics portion of your
analysis. (For ordinal variables, just report the
median, e.g., Median = moderate). Also, coefficient
of determination is not reported in Spearman test
results.

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