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4.2.2 Factor AnalysisThe use of self-report measures has raised concern regarding common method variancewhere it is suggested that relationships between variables can become exaggerated(Kline, Sulsky and Rover-Moriyama, 2000) therefore Factor Analysis is used to test themeasurement models for all measures thus determining item retention. The results are asfollows:-The correlation matrix revealed the presence of many coefficients of .3 and above, whilethe Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin Measure of Sampling Adequacy value is .911 exceeding therecommended value of .6 (Kaiser, 1970) and the Bartlett's Test of Sphericity reachedstatistical significance .000 supported the factorability of the correlation matrix for thepsychological symptoms experienced by each participant.In regards to the Sources of stress, the presence of many coefficients of .3 and above inthe correlation matrix table and the Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin Measure of SamplingAdequacy value of .862 coupled with theBartlett's Test of Sphericity reachingstatistical significance .000, supported the factorability of the correlation matrix.The Factor Analysis results also supported the factorability of the correlation matrix ofthe Coping techniques (KMO =.624 andBartlett's Test of Sphericity = .000) for allthe measures related to the coping techniques.46
4.3 CorrelationsAccording to Gay and Airasian (2003), the correlation coefficient indicates the size anddirection of a the relationship. This study deployed Multivariate analysis of variance(MANOVA) for checking the relationships between the dependent variables andindependents variables. MANOVA is selected in this study as the number of dependentvariables exceeds one. The procedures and analysis are as follows:4.3.1 The existence of stressThe existence of stress was measured using 25 items rated on a 5-point Likert – type ( 1-Never; 2-Seldom;3-Sometimes;4-Very often;5-Almost all the time).A simple weighted sum of the number of psychological symptoms experienced by eachparticipant was used to measure the existence of stress. The weighted sum is furthertransform into 3 category (1(low)= total 52 and below, 2(medium)= 53 thru 78 and 3(high) = 79 and above). Table 4.3 below indicates that 61.2 % of the respondents are inthe middle range while 16.4% are in the high category. It is noted that although there are165 respondents, sadly 25 respondents have not completed all the 25 questions for someunknown reasons, hence they are being excluded in this analysis.Table 4.5 : Psychological symptoms experienced by respondentsValid n Percent1- LOW 12 8.62- MEDIUM 101 72.13 - HIGH 27 19.3Total 140 100.047
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