Correlational research involves collecting data in order to determine whether, and to what degree, a relationship exists between two or more variables An example of correlational research question is "Is poverty related to success of poor students in school?
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Correlational research refer tostudies in which investigators measure two (2) or more concepts and see whether the concepts are associated with one another; it allows the experimenter to determine simultaneously the degree and direction of a relationship with a single statistic
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Correlational research isa research undertaken to discover the association between two or more naturally occurring variables; the study of the naturally occurring relationships among variables. It is the measuremet of two variables (2) and determining whether they are associated with each other.
An example of Correlational research/ studies are various studies relating to smoking and lung cancer.