Hi;
Sounds intriguing...
So people who miss home more are happier and more satisfied with life?
Possibly something to do with a third/moderating variable, or how they interact perhaps? Or some sort of qualitative difference in experience - you can miss home but still be enjoying the experience of studying away?
Is the positive affect from the PANAS? Perhaps the instructions cue people to think about their current mood (enjoying life/the experience now), but the instructions for the missing home scale cue them to think of a different time, unrelated time... So that the two are relatively independent...
Or perhaps it could be a cognitive dissonance thing; if you miss home lots, you have to justify being away by perceiving the experience(s) as much more positive?
Sorry for the ramble; just a few initial ideas :s
-Daniel
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 19:11:15 +0100
Subject: Fw: illogical correlation results - mistake
Opps! The example was wrong. what I found was actually positive correlation between misisng experience and positive wellbeing indicators, i.e. positve affect and life-satisfaction.
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Subject: illogical correlation results
Dear all,
I am working on examining relationship between international students' perception of 'things they arre missing about home' and 'things enjoyed while studying abroad', and subjective well-being. I found that some of the correlations were highly significant but the direction were illogical, for example positive correlations between enjoyment being abroad and positive affect and life satisfaction. I tried to figure out why that happened, and I had already checked every entry of my data, in case i had mispunched the figure in. I really appreciate any suggestion or help in making sense of this data. Thanks
Warm regards,
Mazni
Mazni Mustapha
University of Plymouth.
