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Hello guy's. I'll try and keep this as short as possible.
I've launched a questionnaire which hopes to get empathy scores from qualified nurses, my hypothesis is that empathy scores will decline as the years of experience increase. My head is buzzing with what tests I should run. My data has hits for years qualified, i.e. 1-3 4-7-7-9 etc and I have got individual empathy scores. In my questionnaire I ask for how many years have you been qualified and the questionnaire then moves on to the empathy scoring thingy.

I'm using survey gizmo and I'm able to export to spss. I've ran descriptives and an Anova, then a Pearson's correlation, does this sound, in the right ballpark?? (I have normal distribution of scores).

Thanks in advance for any advice...

in the other output I saw from you, it seemed like you had a separate variable for every year of experience.
Try to combine those into 1, so you'll end up with 2 variables, one for years of experience, one for empathy.
then use correlations.

Many thanks for the reply,

Yeah that makes sense, I take it it is quite simple to do that in my data editor of SPSS?

Graham.

depends on what your data looks like.