Ankit Patel Dev. Psych. Professor Frye Correlation Analysis 1.

The strength of the correlation between depression and motivation is very weak. The direction of the correlation is negative. There is no statistical significance between the two variables being correlated. After this correlation, the data did not completely coincide with what I hypothesized. I thought there would be negative correlation between depression and motivation, but a stronger one, and I would have also expected there to be some type of statistical significance. To sum up the literature and what I found within the literature, the data that I had did not match in terms of the findings. In a realistic sense, that means that either all the articles that had provided data between depression and motivation all happened by chance, or that the data that I had been given had happened by chance (most likely it did). What this could potentially mean in terms of my data is that I may have had a bad sample or my measure was not a valid one. I did not find any statistical difference within my data, which means that the data being correlated was found within the null and thus implying that the data occurred by chance. In Laymens terms, depression and motivation do not have any meaning between each other. The correlation also shows that there is a weak negative correlation between depression and motivation. This data can be digested as there being little to no relationship between depression and motivation. In other words as depression goes up, motivation will go down, but not as much to say that the two variables are something that can be related to each other. Other variables that I did not take into account that my research articles did, were gender and age. Gender is something that I did correlate within my study with depression and motivation, and found that there is almost no relationship between the two. This means that neither males or females as a group experience motivation or depression more than the other. The same went with age. One of the articles that I reviewed happened to find that at the significant value (p.05), there was a correlation of r= -0.35. This research study found a weak negative correlation between depression and motivation at a significant level. The second article found no relationship between depression and motivation in terms of pleasure and anticipatory reward, as well as no significance. The third article which was looking at the relationship between BMI and depression, found a positive correlation. However, they did show motivation to lose weight. This means that depression and motivation would not have any relationship with each other.

Correlations child depression inventory Achievment Motivation Inventory Short Form Pearson Correlation child depression inventory Sig. (2-tailed) N Pearson Correlation Achievment Motivation Inventory Short Form Sig. (2-tailed) N 100 -.152 .133 99 99 1 -.152 .133 99 1