Testing statistical significance for paired data on a Likert-like 1 to 5 scale - what method?
I'm a researcher and as part of my study, I had participants do several 1 to 5 rating scales (with descriptions for each rating) for a before condition and an after condition. However, I'm struggling on figuring out how to analyze this data. I was planning on using a Wilcoxon Signed T-test, but there are a lot of ties since the difference between data values can only be 1, 2, 3, or 4. I also considered a paired t-test but rejected it because my data is ordinal.
Any advice?