How to Create APA Formatted Tables in SPSS: Video Tutorial

The video tutorial demonstrates how to make SPSS produce output tables in APA, doing much of the "heavy lifting" for you! The video is brought to you by www.statsmakemecry.com.

Note: my ".stt" TableLook file can be downloaded here: CLICK HERE FOR LOOK FILE

Comments

[Tony]

This is awesome!!!! Thank you~ I'm a 2nd psych student this year and just started using SPSS. Btw, is this layout accepted with the latest APA?

[Tony]

Nvm~ I just saw the date you posted the video~ Thank you again~

[Jeremy Taylor]

Thanks for the kind words, Tony! Sorry for my delayed response, but I'm glad you discovered the answer!

[Sarah Butler]

Thanks Jeremy! You can bet my students will be seeing this!

[Jeremy Taylor]

Thanks Sarah! I appreciate you visiting my site and for spreading the word to your students! They are welcome to post questions on my forum (but tell them I won't do their homework for them...LOL). They are also welcome to attend my "Hangouts", which I host periodically (basically they are live online group video chats, where people can ask stats questions).

[Megan Elizabeth]

This post saved me HOURS of work! Thank you! Thank you!

[Jeremy Taylor]

I'm glad I could help, Megan!

[aimeemax]

Thanks so very very much, you have just cut down my workload!
:)

[Luis Ramos]

Thank you very much. This is very helpful and saved me a lot of work.

Greetings from Perú.

[RRathje]

Thank you! Saved me much time and frustration!

[Jeremy Taylor]

I'm glad I could help, RRathje!

[Toya732]

If a pop up box says you dont have permission to save in this directory, what would be the next steps?

[Jeremy Taylor]

Hi Toya,

In this case, just save it in another directory (folder), I think it is only the "looks" folder where permissions are a problem. At that point you can either leave it in there and browse to that location when selecting your look or move it into the "Looks" folder after saving elsewhere ( it will ask you to authentic to do that, but that's no problem). I hope that helps!

[Toya732]

Hi Jeremy,

Question. If you developed your own scale and ran a bivariate correlation, what do you do when some of your items do not significantly correlate with each other and some of them do? or some of t those same items correlate with the Total and some do not? Of course this experience has me completely confused as I am use to items being significant.

Please help when you get a chance, thanks!

[Jeremy Taylor]

Great question Toya,

To develop a scale I would use a factor analysis on the group of items that I intend to include, to see which items seem to measure the construct I'm trying to represent with my scale. Items that do not covary (correlate) with other items (but are intended to measure the same construct) may need to be excluded. However, if they are NOT intended to measure the same construct as other items (i.e. there is ore than one construct measured by the measurement instrument) then they don't necessarily need to correlate with each other (but then they would be on the same "scale" together...). I hope that helps!

[Boris Angelovski]

Dropbox link are broken (Error (404))

Here is the correct link for ".stt" APA Table Look file ( author Jeremy J. Taylor)

[Jeremy Taylor]

Thanks for catching that, Boris! I fixed the broken link!