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Reliability Analysis with Cronbach's Alpha

This document summarizes the results of a reliability analysis on 16 variables (a through p) measured on 147 cases. It found: 1) The Cronbach's alpha value was .960, indicating excellent reliability across the 16 items. 2) All variable correlations were statistically significant at the 0.01 level, ranging from .449 to .699, providing further evidence of reliability. 3) When run with listwise deletion of missing cases, the analysis included 139 cases and found a Cronbach's alpha of .913, still indicating very high scale reliability.

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Reliability Analysis with Cronbach's Alpha

This document summarizes the results of a reliability analysis on 16 variables (a through p) measured on 147 cases. It found: 1) The Cronbach's alpha value was .960, indicating excellent reliability across the 16 items. 2) All variable correlations were statistically significant at the 0.01 level, ranging from .449 to .699, providing further evidence of reliability. 3) When run with listwise deletion of missing cases, the analysis included 139 cases and found a Cronbach's alpha of .913, still indicating very high scale reliability.

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RELIABILITY

/VARIABLES=a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p
/SCALE('ALL VARIABLES') ALL
/MODEL=ALPHA.



Reliability


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Input
Active Dataset DataSet0
Filter <none>
Weight <none>
Split File <none>
N of Rows in Working Data
File
147
Matrix Input

Missing Value Handling
Definition of Missing
User-defined missing values are
treated as missing.
Cases Used
Statistics are based on all cases with
valid data for all variables in the
procedure.
Syntax
RELIABILITY
/VARIABLES=a b c d e f g h i j k l m n
o p
/SCALE('ALL VARIABLES') ALL
/MODEL=ALPHA.
Resources
Processor Time 00:00:00.02
Elapsed Time 00:00:00.01


[DataSet0]



Scale: ALL VARIABLES


Case Processing Summary

N %
Cases
Valid 143 97.3
Excluded
a
4 2.7
Total 147 100.0
a. Listwise deletion based on all variables in the
procedure.


Reliability Statistics
Cronbach's
Alpha
N of Items
.960 16


Nonparametric Correlations


Correlations
p
Spearman's rho a Correlation Coefficient .449**
Sig. (2-tailed) .000
N 147
b Correlation Coefficient .570**
Sig. (2-tailed) .000
N 147
c Correlation Coefficient .448**
Sig. (2-tailed) .000
N 147
d Correlation Coefficient .512**
Sig. (2-tailed) .000
N 147
e Correlation Coefficient .590**
Sig. (2-tailed) .000
N 146
f Correlation Coefficient .597**
Sig. (2-tailed) .000
N 147
g Correlation Coefficient .563**
Sig. (2-tailed) .000
N 147
h Correlation Coefficient .636**
Sig. (2-tailed) .000
N 147
i Correlation Coefficient .657**
Sig. (2-tailed) .000
N 144
j Correlation Coefficient .555**
Sig. (2-tailed) .000
N 147
k Correlation Coefficient .447**
Sig. (2-tailed) .000
N 147
l Correlation Coefficient .668**
Sig. (2-tailed) .000
N 147
m Correlation Coefficient .577**
Sig. (2-tailed) .000
N 147
n Correlation Coefficient .674**
Sig. (2-tailed) .000
N 147
o Correlation Coefficient .666**
Sig. (2-tailed) .000
N 147
p Correlation Coefficient 1.000
Sig. (2-tailed) .
N 147
q Correlation Coefficient .699**
Sig. (2-tailed) .000
N 147
** Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed).

Reliability


Scale: ALL VARIABLES


Case Processing Summary

N %
Cases
Valid 139 94.6
Excluded
a
8 5.4
Total 147 100.0
a. Listwise deletion based on all variables in the
procedure.


Reliability Statistics
Cronbach's Alpha N of Items
.913 16

Common questions

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The elapsed processor time of 0.01 seconds illustrates that the analysis was computationally efficient, indicating minimal processing resources were needed for this dataset's reliability calculations, presumably due to the relatively small dataset size .

A high exclusion rate of 5.4% could potentially bias the reliability analysis results because it may not fully represent the population variance, leading to an overestimation or underestimation of Cronbach's Alpha if the excluded data are systematically different .

Treating user-defined missing values as missing impacts analysis outcomes by potentially skewing results if these missing values have a non-random pattern, affecting statistical power and the generalizability of the reliability coefficients .

A Cronbach's Alpha of 0.960 indicates an excellent level of internal consistency among the variables a to p, suggesting that the items measure a reliable underlying construct .

The high significance level of the correlations, with p-values less than 0.01, reinforces the reliability of the relationships among the variables, suggesting that these relationships are unlikely to be due to random chance and are statistically significant .

Correlation coefficients above 0.5 indicate moderate to strong positive relationships among most variables, which supports the assumption of underlying shared factors or constructs that the variables jointly measure. This strengthens the validity of the scale used .

Listwise deletion reduces the number of valid cases to 143 out of 147, excluding 4 cases due to missing data across all variables, resulting in 97.3% of the cases being valid .

The decrease in validity percentage from 97.3% to 94.6% may be due to further exclusions of cases with new missing data encounters or more stringent criteria applied. This reduction affects the completeness of the data and can impact the robustness and confidence in the reliability estimates provided .

Spearman's rho is used instead of Pearson's correlation coefficient because it assesses monotonic relationships between variables and is less sensitive to outliers and non-normal distributions, suitable for nonparametric data present in the study .

A Cronbach's Alpha of 0.913 over a reduced set of valid cases implies that even with some exclusions, the scale demonstrates strong reliability and that the remaining data provide a consistent measure of the construct .

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