Exam 7: Conducting Research That Explains Things: What Explains Life Satisfaction

If all the persons in your study sample are female, gender will not be a variable in your study.

In explanatory research, a theory is an attempt to______.

In explanatory research, a variable is something that ______.

You would expect to find a negative empirical relationship from data on grades in school and data on ______

Which of the following types of research will normally have a study hypothesis that is being tested?

The value of p in the statistical analysis of data is derived from inferential statistics.

In order to report that your data supported your study hypothesis, you must have the result that your data went in the hypothesized direction and were ______.

Suppose you decided to conduct an explanatory research study using the clients of a given service in a specified agency with which you are familiar. Your study objective is to determine if gender explains client no-shows (i.e., whether a client shows up for a service appointment). Explain how you would select the clients for your study and whether you can generalize your findings on a scientific basis to the population of all clients currently served by your agency.

What major issue is examined when you determine the method for selecting the study sample from the study population?

Evidence for the reliability of the Beck Depression Inventory would be a finding of ______.

Suppose you conducted a study about the relationship of self-esteem and grades in school. The scores for self-esteem were recorded from a common scale of self-esteem where higher scores represent higher self-esteem. Grades were recorded as the numerical average of all grades for students on their last report card. Your hypothesis was as follows: There is a positive relationship between grades in school and self-esteem. You found a correlation of .31 between these two variables and a p value of .34 (i.e., r = .31; p = .34). Did these data support your hypothesis?

The value of p in the analysis of data provides guidance on ______ significance.

A negative correlation between scores for depression and grades in school would mean that those who were higher than others on one of these variables would tend to be higher than others on the other variable.

You can generalize your findings on a scientific basis to your study population from an explanatory research study if you have a ______ sample.

If you collected data from all members of your research class for a study, you can scientifically generalize the results of your study to all students in your university.

Which of the following is a good statement of a study hypothesis?

You are studying a group of clients in your women's support group services. You've collected data on age and whether a client has no-showed (failed to show up for an appointment). What are the variables in your study?

The major purpose of the literature review for the explanatory study is to ______.

Suppose you have a study hypothesis that suggests you will find a negative relationship between scores for social support and scores for stress. Your data have yielded a correlation coefficient of -.37 with a p value of .21. Explain why you would or would not draw the conclusion that you found a negative relationship between social support and stress.

What is an example of the structure of your data in an explanatory study? Explain what research task in explanatory research is guided by knowing the structure of your data.