Date:         Thu, 27 Jan 2005 10:30:26 -0500
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From:         Art Kendall <Art@DRKENDALL.ORG>
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Subject:      Re: subscales
Comments: To: Mpundu Mukanga <engineeringresearch3000@yahoo.com>
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suggestions interspersed below.


Mpundu Mukanga wrote:

>Hi everyone
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>I have a syntax problem and hope someone will be able to assist me.
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>I Have a 30-item likert questionnaire (with each item as a separate
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>variable) and I would like to the syntax to score and create each of
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>the questionnaire's 5 subscales and compare their means. For example,
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>the mean of items 13, 20, 21 and 27 create a "Team" subscale and so on.
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something like this untested syntax should get your scores.
compute team= mean.3 (item13, item20,item21,item27).

>Secondly I would like to find out how each of my 5 groups of
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>respondents scored on the subscales
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something like this untested syntax should compare the groups.
oneway team score2 score3 by mygroup (1,5)
   /statistics=all
   /plot=means.

>in compare that with the
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>overall scores.
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I'm not sure what this means.


Art
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