jamovi

Hey!

So I have an age variable in categories 25-34, 35-44 etc, there are 5 categories in total, I am trying to run tests to see if there is a pattern against a final score from an empathy scale, the hypothesis was that as age rises empathy should lower, however i dont know the correct test to run as theyre both continuous variables..

Can anyone help me which test I should run?

There's more than one way to analyze these data. I would analyze it as a correlation between x (the category minimum: 25, 35, 45, etc.) and y (empathy score). In jamovi, you would need to create a computed variable that converts the categorical age variable to a "continuous" age-category-minimum variable. Then you would need to use REGRESSION > CORRELATION MATRIX to compute the correlation between x and y.