Question

The Pearson correlations below are taken from a longitudinal study of children from a predominantly working class community, when the respondents were 18 years old.

Using the information from the table below, answer the following questions:

	Self-Esteem
Depressive Symptomatology	-.700***
Family Cohesion	.54***
***p.<001

1. Describe the Pearson correlation between self-esteem and depressive symptomatology (strength & direction). Given this finding, if a client had higher levels of depressive symptoms, what level of self-esteem would we expect?
2. Describe how family cohesion and self-esteem are associated? Is this association statistically significant?

Answer 1

From the table above we can not that the correlation between Self-Esteem depressive symptomatology is -0.7.

So we can say these two variables are more less strongly related with inverse relationship as if we increase one then other will go down.

so  if a client had higher levels of depressive symptoms, then lower level of self-esteem would we expect

Describe how family cohesion and self-esteem are associated? Is this association statistically significant?

the corrrelation between family cohesion and self-esteem are associated is 0.54. So these are positively correlated. from the table we can not that the p-value associated with this table is < 0.001 (as *** indicates p-value <0.001) so we can say this correlation is statistically significant.