As she booted up her laptop and opened the SPSS application, Emily felt a sense of excitement and nervousness. She had used SPSS before, but only for simple data analysis tasks. This time, she was working with a much larger dataset and needed to perform more complex statistical tests.

The first thing Emily did was to import her data into SPSS. She had collected data from 200 participants, including their demographic information, social media usage habits, and scores on a standardized depression symptom questionnaire. She carefully checked that all the data was correctly imported and formatted, making sure that there were no errors or missing values.

Encouraged by these initial findings, Emily decided to move on to more advanced statistical analysis. She used SPSS to perform a regression analysis, examining the relationship between social media usage and depression symptoms while controlling for demographic variables. As she waited for the output to appear, she felt a sense of anticipation. Would her data support her hypothesis that excessive social media usage was associated with increased symptoms of depression?