Suppose Your Treatment Objective Is to Improve Self-Esteem for a Group

Essay

Suppose your treatment objective is to improve self-esteem for a group of clients and you measure each client one time before treatment begins and one time at the end of the treatment on a self-esteem scale that gives higher scores for higher self-esteem. Your mean pretest score was 16.8 and your mean posttest score was 21.5. Your data were subjected to the paired t test with these results: n = 21; t = 1.3; p > .05. Answer the following three questions: (1) What must you find in order to report that your data supported your study hypothesis? (2) Did your data support your hypothesis? (3) Explain why it did or did not.