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A tutorial on analyzing data from speed‐dating studies with heterosexual dyads
Author(s) -
ACKERMAN ROBERT A.,
KASHY DEBORAH A.,
CORRETTI CONRAD A.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
personal relationships
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.81
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1475-6811
pISSN - 1350-4126
DOI - 10.1111/pere.12065
Subject(s) - psychology , attraction , dating violence , social psychology , statistical analysis , developmental psychology , human factors and ergonomics , poison control , statistics , mathematics , domestic violence , medicine , philosophy , linguistics , environmental health
Speed‐dating studies provide a useful venue for studying attraction and other relationship initiation processes. They provide researchers with a unique opportunity to assess how much a dyadic behavior (e.g., attraction) is due to some relationship‐specific adjustment or the dispositional tendencies of the two people interacting. Researchers can also investigate the impact of individual difference variables on relationship initiation outcomes. This article shows researchers how to address such interesting questions by providing an extended treatment of how to apply the social relations model (D. A. Kenny & L. La Voie, 1984) to data from a typical speed‐dating study with heterosexual dyads. The statistical program SPSS is used given its widespread use and accessibility.