The Doctoral Program in Psychology, Faculty of Psychology UGM held an Intensive Course on Advanced Statistical Analysis in Research in the Social Sciences. This intensive course activity is held for 5 days starting on August 30, 2021, until September 3, 2021. This course activity was opened by the Head of the Psychological Science Doctoral Program, namely Rahmat Hidayat, S.Psi., M.Sc., Ph. D
“Just to introduce this intensive course is a form of learning in the 2020 Psychology Doctoral Program curriculum where learning activities are carried out in a modular manner,” said Rahmat through his opening remarks. In addition, Rahmat also said that this intensive course was a refresher activity on statistics, especially for Psychology Doctoral Program students and Psychology Doctoral candidates who still needed to refresh their statistical material.
This intensive course activity begins with the material “Mediator Analysis” delivered by Haidar Buldan Thantowi, M.A., Ph. D. Haidar presents several examples of research titles using the mediator analysis model. “This mediation is one of the analyzes that I think is quite interesting and provides an opportunity for us to test more complicated hypotheses,” said Haidar.
In general, especially at the undergraduate level, they are often taught about the analysis between two variables. While mediation recognizes that the relationship between variables is not as simple as one variable with another variable. In this intensive course, Haidar not only delivered material, but also directly taught course participants how to analyze mediators using SPSS and Jamovi applications.
The activity which lasted for 5 days consisted of several topics, including “Moderator Analysis”, “Longitudinal Analysis, Confirmatory Factor Analysis, Structural Equation Modeling, and various other interesting materials. In addition, these materials were delivered by various competent speakers in their fields, such as Prof. Dr. Faturochman, M.A., Galang Lufityanto, M.Psi., Ph.D., Wahyu Jati Anggoro, M.A., Wahyu Widhiarso, M.A., Muhammad Dwirifqi K.P, M.Si., Helly P. Soetjipto, M.A., and Prof. Dr. Saifuddin Azwar, M.A.