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EDMS 646: Quantitative Research Methods II APA Tables in SPSS Jeffrey Harring

University of Maryland 1

1. Making an APA-Style Correlation Table Using SPSS First, open a data file, I am currently using some HSB (High School & Beyond) data. Run a bivariate correlation by going to Analyze > Correlate > Bivariate

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1 .788** .316** .423**.000 .006 .000

75 75 73 75.788** 1 .289* .356**.000 .013 .002

75 75 73 75.316** .289* 1 .047.006 .013 .695

73 73 73 73.423** .356** .047 1.000 .002 .695

75 75 73 75

Pearson CorrelationSig. (2-tailed)NPearson CorrelationSig. (2-tailed)NPearson CorrelationSig. (2-tailed)NPearson CorrelationSig. (2-tailed)N

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Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed).**.

Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed).*.

In the SPSS output window, move your mouse pointer over the table and then Right-Click your mouse button. Go to “SPSS Pivot Table Object” and select “Open.”



This new window is called the “SPSS Pivot Table” Editor window. Click on Format > Tablelooks…

In the next window, scroll down and select “Academic,” then OK

You should now see the changes made in the SPSS Pivot Table editor



Although this looks closer to APA-style, it’s not quite there yet. Let’s make more changes. Click on Format > Table Properties… and you should see:

Change ”Maximum width” of labels to “120.” Then click on the “Cell Formats” tab. Now change everything to Times New Roman and 12-point font and flushed-left. Go to the next “Aera” and do the same thing. Keep doing this until you have changed all “Areas.” After making the changes, click on the “Borders” tab. In this window, change border line size:

You need to change the following borders to the smallest line size [it’s the one right after (None)]: “Top inner frame” “Bottom inner frame” “Data area top” Click (None) for “Horizontal dimension border” Click “OK”. You should now see the Pivot Table editor again: Now let’s permanently save this design as a template… Go to Format > TableLooks… Click on “Save As” and save it to your personal folder. Name it whatever, e.g., “APA Table.” After saving it, click “OK.” Now let’s make this new APA design the SPSS default output. In the SPSS data editor go to Edit > Options… then click on the Pivot Table tab:



Click on Browse… and find the file you saved the template as and open it. Click OK. Now, your default output will be your new APA-style table. Try running the Bivariate Correlation… again. 2. Exporting Table to Microsoft Word Before we put the table into a Word document, let’s clean it up a bit. Remember, APA-style is supposed to be simple and clean: Here’s the final edit

Go ahead and click “X” to close the SPSS Pivot Table window. Now you should be back in the Output window. Right-click mouse and Copy the new chart. Open you document and paste it in.



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math achievement test 1 .788** .316** .423** scholastic aptitude test - math

.788** 1 .289* .356**

motivation scale .316** .289* 1 .047 visualization test .423** .356** .047 1

** p < 0.01 level. * p < 0.05 level. It may at first look quite ugly like this above. Adjust the lines, adjust the column sizes. Remove the parentheses () around the asterisk *. Now you might see something like this: Table 1. Correlations Among Study Variables

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Math achievement ____

Scholastic aptitude .788** ____

Motivation scale .316** .289* ____

Visualization test .423** .356** .047 ____

** p < 0.01 level. * p < 0.05 level. Now erase the upper-right side correlations and replace the 1’s with underline (_). Now, just highlight everything with your mouse and click Flush-left, then capitalize the first letter of each variable and give it a title. Italicize the title and the ”p” for the correlation significance. Then double-space the table.

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