Correlation and dependence

A study was conducted to measure an individual’s attitudes towards homosexuality, attitude scales have been devised from Larsen et al in 1980 to LeMar and Kite’s 1997 attitude scale, to reflect modern day attitudes towards homosexuality a study was conducted using a new scale as the old one is outdated, using this new scale and additional study was conducted into the attitudes of an individual and the participant’s levels of religiosity to test the relationship between the two topics. Various…

psychologists is correlation. Correlations provide data that enables psychologists to answer questions that have not been answered before. Correlation method is defined as “A research method used to examine relationships between variables, which are expressed in the form of a statistical measure called a correlation coefficients” (Nevid,201,p24). Unlike an experiment where one variable is dependent and the other is independent, both variables in a correlation remain constant. For each…

the “blood” after 60 minutes a calibration curve had to be created by making up seven different solutions of eosin (11,25 μg ml-1) and water to compare it against their absorbance that was calculated in a spectrophotometer. Figure 1 shows this correlation. It is clearly evident that the higher the concentration of eosin in a test tube, the higher the absorbance of that test tube will be. It shows that absorbance is directly proportional to concentration. This…

individual well-being and happiness. Due to this increase there have been multitudes of theories and studies conducted to determine appropriate interventions to assist individuals well-being. This essay will focus on gratitude intervention and its correlation with well-being. This essay will use empirical evidence to prove the link between gratitude and subjective well-being. This essay will also give clear insight into intervention assessment, test scoring, as well as discussing the detailed…

self-defeating humor score, the lower the usage of humor as a coping strategy. However, the results of the present study do not support the idea of a negative correlation. Instead, there is a weak, but significant positive correlation between self-defeating humor and the use of humor as a coping strategy, rather than the negative correlation between the two measures. Based on these results, if an individual’s score on the HSQ is high for self-defeating humor, then they also have a high score…

In the following two studies, Vrij and Mann (2001) and Mann, Vrij, and Bull (2004), respectively, researched police officers abilities to detect deception in real-life, high-stakes scenarios. They also looked at the behavioural cues which were used to come to these conclusions. In the first study by Vrij and Mann (2001), participants were comprised of 52 police officers in the Netherlands, 28 male and 24 female. The officers had an average age of 30, around 9 years of service, and rated…

These two variables were weakly correlated, r(206)= .16, p=.019, as summarized in Table 1. Although these two variables have a weak, positive correlation, this conclusion is still important due to a significant p-value. Therefore, the probability that this correlation arose due to sampling variation or chance is very low. We can then conclude that, in general, as perceived subjective norms by friends increase, amount of time spent on aerobic exercise…

Introduction The article relates to the assessment instrument I will be presenting, Motor-free Visual Perception Test. The purpose of this correlational research study of adult stroke survivors in occupational therapy is to show the relationship between basic visual function and higher-level visual perceptual processing skills. Development After sustaining a brain injury, a person is often left with varying degrees of cognitive and perceptual dysfunction as well as the more obvious motor and…

Purpose and Hypotheses of the Study The study by Mercedes Stanley and Deborah Pollard (2013) had three purposes. One was to examine the pediatric nurse’s ability and level knowledge to assess the management of pediatric pain. The second purpose of this study was to examine how a nurse’s prior experience would affect the attitude and ability to competently administer pediatric pain management to patients. A third purpose was to observe the level of self-efficacy among a group of North…

Given that mental health plays a leading role in ensuring dynamism and efficiency in any society, the present study aimed to investigate the correlations of alexithymia and perceived stress with mental health among the medical students. The present work was a descriptive and correlational study, and the statistical population comprised all students in the 18-31 age range studying at Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences during the academic year 2013-2014 (N=3730). Then a sample of 591…