spss help

psychhead

Hi
Im currently doing my thesis, while im not great at spss ive made a few attempts. but not sure if im on the right track so....Basically i conducted a survey looking at peoples own behaviour and then asked them about what they think their peers is. same questions but just they rate them on their peers. i want to compare differences across age groups and gender. So.. so far iv looked at frequencies across age groups and gender. then i attempted to do correlations, wondering here if theres a way i can do correlations between the own persons reported behaviour and peers actual behaviour? as its all the same variable? Is that even possible or a silly q? ive then done correlations on own behaviour with perceived peers behaviour. Finally I want to do a repeated measures for a likert scale variable with another likert scale variable, ive no theoretical background to say which q on the scale is most likely to influence the behaviour so should I do a blocked entry? and also as i still need to look at gender and age groups, how do i do this??
Apologies if this sounds confusing, im a bit confused myself, know what i want to get just dont know how to do it. any advice would be greatly appreciated!

psycjay

I was pretty good with spss but I would need to have a clearer picture of what variables you have measured and what you are trying to achieve.

If you have time I would recommend the this book as it very clearly works through the different tests etc.

dambarude

What exactly do you mean when you say 'it's all the same variable'? Is there a measure of own rated behaviour, and then a measure of rated behaviour of peers? I'm not sure how they could be the same variable.

Is there any way you could give a quick summary of the questionnaire, and how each part was measured?

TrollHammaren

Have you checked out http://www.statisticshell.com/ or http://statistics.laerd.com/ ?

They're pretty helpful sites for using SPSS.