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I have four questions representing one variable called work family conflict. They are all ordinal. And I added all the items and made it one variable.

After adding them up, I got code ranging from 1 to 16. Now 16 means high conflict and 1 means low. I have to to run the regression, how can I do it. Work family conflict is independent variable and my dependent variable is self reported health which is a likert scale.

  • Should I recode and categorized it to high, medium and low and run the ordinal regression?
  • Or can I run the ordinal regression without categorizing?
  • Is it right to run the ordinal regression when dependent variable has likert scale?
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  • $\begingroup$ You can do it both way. Your dependent variable is ordinal and you have a categorical independent variable. $\endgroup$
    – SmallChess
    Feb 2, 2017 at 8:47
  • $\begingroup$ If you have enough cases then leave it as 0 to 16 (you did mean that, not 1 to 16?). Why waste data? $\endgroup$
    – mdewey
    Feb 2, 2017 at 14:12
  • $\begingroup$ I am not confused about whether it should be 0 or 1, I am confused as to how I can run the regression with. If I run the regression I will get value for each from 1 to 16 but I don't want that. I want one value that is for the conflict. $\endgroup$
    – Sushma Dhital
    Feb 2, 2017 at 14:21

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Summing or averaging ordinal variables is debateable, but proceeding anyway, ordinal regression (PLUM) gives you a threshold coefficient for each level, but you still get only one coefficient for your independent covariate.

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