Results
Data from Chamorro-Premuzic et al. (2008). The authors investigated what kind of lecturers students like, based on the Big Five personality traits.
Lecturer neuroticism
The first model we’ll fit predicts whether students want lecturers to be neurotic. Drag the outcome variable (lec_neurotic) to the box labelled Dependent Variable. Then, drag the variable age and all the student variables (e.g. stu_agree) to the box labelled Covariates, and the variable sex to the box labelled Factors. Then define the Model as follows. In Model 0, include age and sex, then in Model 1 add all five student variables.
So basically, age, openness and conscientiousness were significant predictors of wanting a neurotic lecturer (note that for openness and conscientiousness the relationship is negative, i.e. the more a student scored on these characteristics, the less they wanted a neurotic lecturer). However, a look at the Q-Q plot and the residual vs. predicted plots do give some reason to worry about possible violatios of the normality and heteroscedasticity assumptions and so should be interpreted with caution
Lecturer Extroversion
The second variable we want to predict is lecturer extroversion. You can follow the steps of the first example but drag the outcome variable lec_neurotic out of the box labelled Dependent variable and in its place drag lec_extro.
You should find that student extroversion was the only significant predictor of wanting an extrovert lecturer; the model overall did not explain a significant amount of the variance in wanting an extroverted lecturer.
Lecturer Openness to Experience
You can follow the steps of the first example but drag the outcome variable lec_open into the box labelled Dependent Variable.
You should find that student openness to experience was the most significant predictor of wanting a lecturer who is open to experience, but student agreeableness significantly predicted this also.
Lecturer Agreeableness
The fourth variable we want to predict is lecturer agreeableness. You can follow the steps of the first example but drag lec_agree into the box labelled Dependent Variable.
You should find that age, student openness to experience and student neuroticism significantly predicted wanting a lecturer who is agreeable. Age and openness to experience had negative relationships (the older and more open to experienced you are, the less you want an agreeable lecturer), whereas as student neuroticism increases so does the desire for an agreeable lecturer (not surprisingly, because neurotics will lack confidence and probably feel more able to ask an agreeable lecturer questions).
Lecturer Conscientiousness
The final variable we want to predict is lecturer conscientiousness. You can follow the steps of the first example but drag lec_consc into the box labelled Dependent Variable.
Student agreeableness and conscientiousness both signfiicantly predict wanting a lecturer who is conscientious. Note also that gender predicted this in the first step, but its b^ became slightly non-significant (p = .07) when the student personality variables were forced in as well. However, sex is probably a variable that should be explored further within this context.
Compare all of your results to Table 4 in the actual article (shown below) - our five analyses are represented by the columns labelled N, E, O, A and C).
