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1. Running head: Knowledge assessment 1
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2. Knowledge assessment 2
QUESTION 1
Hypothesis
People living a luxurious lifestyle have high income.
This implies that a positive correlation is expected between lifestyle and participant
income (INC1). The hypothesis is expected to be supported since in most cases, an individual’s
lifestyle depends on the income they generate. This implies that ones’ desire for a luxurious
lifestyle increases as there income increase.
QUESTION 2
Results
Correlations
Participant's
income lifestyle
Participant's
income
Pearson Correlation 1 .138**
Sig. (2-tailed) .000
N 1146 1146
lifestyle Pearson Correlation .138**
1
Sig. (2-tailed) .000
N 1146 1146
**. Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed).
From the table above r =.138, p < .001
QUESTION 3
Conclusion
The results above confirms that the hypothesis that, people living a luxurious lifestyle
have high income, thereby giving evidence of the validity of the LIFESTYLE scale. This is so
since a positive correlation of .138 shows that the desire for a luxurious lifestyle increases as
one’s income increases thereby resulting in a convergent validity.

3. Knowledge assessment 3
References
Huber-Carol, C et al. Goodness-Of-Fit Tests And Model Validity
Mukong, Alfred Kechia et al. "Lifestyle And Income-Related Inequality In Health In South
Africa". International Journal For Equity In Health, vol 16, no. 1, 2017. Springer
Nature, doi:10.1186/s12939-017-0598-7.