A Research Team Is Testing Whether Mothers' Mental Health Is

Multiple Choice

A research team is testing whether mothers' mental health is predicted by their own ratings of their parenting quality,and finds that mothers who have a more positive perception of their parenting report fewer depressive symptoms.However,they also find that employed mothers have lower parenting ratings and lower reported depressive symptoms.In this example,mothers' employment is a possible ________ variable.

A) suppressor
B) confounding
C) mediating
D) control