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If you know INTERACT, or you know someone who knows someone who knows how to use INTERACT, I need help. They have changed the interface since the last time I used it, and I am just trying to calculate the deflection for a depressed newlywed (male and female data both). I think I did it right, but I’m not sure. It’s the kind of not sure you can’t be when you plan on sending a paper out to a journal.

When you put in an identity it gives you a score right underneath (I’m assuming that’s the fundamental). When you put in emotion, it gives you the same. Then, underneath, it says “combined.” I’m assuming that’s the transient?

I know how to calculate the deflection if those assumptions are correct (the sum of the squared differences between the two). But that’s making a jump.

So if I have an E P A for “newlywed” at 2.81, 1.77, and 1.97 and a combined (depressed newlywed) of -1.44, 0.17, -0.19 then subtracting E1-E2 (2.81 – (-1.44)), P1-P2 (1.77-0.17), A1-A2 (1.97-(-0.19)), then squaring the three values and summing them, I get a deflection of 25.2881.  (I’m assuming this is male data).

Is this right? Is the “combined” the transient score? HELP!