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Testing Reporting the relationship between variables- very basic question: correlation or regression?

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I'm doing my dissertation in Accounting and I developed a questionnaire to test certain hypotheses on the relationship between independent variables toand a dependent variable. All were measured on a 5-point Likert Scalescale. I am using SPSS to testanalyse the data. The variablevariables are all non  -normal (I used Kolmogorov smirnov-Smirnov test) and so I will be using spearmanSpearman correlation to test the relationships.

I was wondering whether this is enough? Should I use some form of regression as well? And if I do, do I still include the spearmanSpearman results? Do studies usually include both?

I have not studied any statistics so this is quite new to me :/

Thank you!.

I'm doing my dissertation in Accounting and I developed a questionnaire to test certain hypotheses on the relationship between independent variables to a dependent variable. All were measured on a 5-point Likert Scale. I am using SPSS to test the data. The variable are all non  -normal (I used Kolmogorov smirnov test) and so I will be using spearman correlation to test the relationships.

I was wondering whether this is enough? Should I use some form of regression as well? And if I do, do I still include the spearman results? Do studies usually include both?

I have not studied any statistics so this is quite new to me :/

Thank you!

I'm doing my dissertation in Accounting and I developed a questionnaire to test certain hypotheses on the relationship between independent variables and a dependent variable. All were measured on a 5-point Likert scale. I am using SPSS to analyse the data. The variables are all non-normal (I used Kolmogorov-Smirnov test) and so I will be using Spearman correlation to test the relationships.

I was wondering whether this is enough? Should I use some form of regression as well? And if I do, do I still include the Spearman results? Do studies usually include both?

I have not studied any statistics so this is quite new to me.

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Testing the relationship between variables- very basic question

I'm doing my dissertation in Accounting and I developed a questionnaire to test certain hypotheses on the relationship between independent variables to a dependent variable. All were measured on a 5-point Likert Scale. I am using SPSS to test the data. The variable are all non -normal (I used Kolmogorov smirnov test) and so I will be using spearman correlation to test the relationships.

I was wondering whether this is enough? Should I use some form of regression as well? And if I do, do I still include the spearman results? Do studies usually include both?

I have not studied any statistics so this is quite new to me :/

Thank you!