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Cronbach Alpha

Cronbach's alpha is a measure of internal consistency of items in a survey that use Likert scales. A researcher administered a 9-question survey measuring feelings of safety at work using a 5-point Likert scale to 15 workers. The researcher conducted a Cronbach's alpha test in SPSS to determine if the 9 questions reliably measure the same concept of feeling of safety and can be combined into a scale. The summary describes the 8 steps to run Cronbach's alpha in SPSS: select the questions as items, choose Alpha as the model, select descriptive statistics and correlations options, and click OK to generate the output.

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Cronbach Alpha

Cronbach's alpha is a measure of internal consistency of items in a survey that use Likert scales. A researcher administered a 9-question survey measuring feelings of safety at work using a 5-point Likert scale to 15 workers. The researcher conducted a Cronbach's alpha test in SPSS to determine if the 9 questions reliably measure the same concept of feeling of safety and can be combined into a scale. The summary describes the 8 steps to run Cronbach's alpha in SPSS: select the questions as items, choose Alpha as the model, select descriptive statistics and correlations options, and click OK to generate the output.

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Cronbach's Alpha () using SPSS

Introduction
Cronbach's alpha is the most common measure of internal consistency ("reliability"). It is most commonly used when you have multiple Likert questions in a survey/questionnaire that form a scale, and you wish to determine if the scale is reliable.

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Example
A researcher has devised a nine-question questionnaire to measure how safe people feel at work at an industrial complex. Each question was a 5-point Likert item from "strongly disagree" to "strongly agree". In order to understand whether the questions in this questionnaire all reliably measure the same latent variable (feeling of safety) (so a Likert scale could be constructed), a Cronbach's alpha was run on a sample size of 15 workers.

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Setup in SPSS
In SPSS, the nine questions have been labelled Qu1 through to Qu9. To know how to correctly enter your data into SPSS in order to run a Cronbach's alpha test, see our Entering Data into SPSS tutorial. Alternately, you can learn about our enhanced data setup content here.

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Test Procedure in SPSS


The eight steps below show you how to check for internal consistency using Cronbach's alpha in SPSS. At the end of these eight steps, we show you how to interpret the results from your Cronbach's alpha.

Click Analyze > Scale > Reliability Analysis... on the top menu as shown below:

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You will be presented with the Reliability Analysis dialogue box:

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Transfer the variables Qu1 to Qu9 into the Items: box. You can do this by drag-and-dropping the variables into their respective boxes or by using the button. You will be presented with the following screen:

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Leave the Model: set as "Alpha", which represents Cronbach's alpha in SPSS. If you want to provide a name for the scale, enter it in the Scale label: box. Since this only prints the name you enter at the top of the SPSS output, it is certainly not essential that you do; and in this case, we will leave it blank.

Click on the below:

button, which will present the Reliability Analysis: Statistics dialogue box, as shown

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Select the Item, Scale and Scale if item deleted options in the -Descriptives for- area, and the Correlations option in the -Inter-Item- area, as shown below:

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Click the Click the

button. This will return you to the Reliability Analysis dialogue box. button to generate the output.

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