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Its all Variable (s)
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Chapter 8
Mediating/Moderating
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The variable that is assumed/hypothesized to explain another variable
What is an Independent Variable
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What is the direction of this hypothesis: A higher level of worker’s job satisfaction in an Adult day care center decreases the level of agitation in the adult clients that are served by this center.
What is Negative (inverse)
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The process by which a researcher defines specifically what he or she means when using a concept is known as
What is conceptualization
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A study conducted by Lo and Cheng (2007) looked at the effect of childhood maltreatment on the rate of substance abuse in young adults. In their study, they also explored the role depression plays in this relationship. Their study found that depression did, in fact, disrupt the relationship between maltreatment and rate of alcohol and drug abuse in their sample population. What is IV, DV and is there a mediating or moderating variable? – if so what is it.
IV = effects of child maltreatment DV - Rate of Substance abuse Mediating – depression
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How we describe or reference a variable – ex Male/female feminine or masculine
What is a Category or attribute
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What is a hypothesis that explains and predicts that relationship between two variables?
What is A directional hypothesis
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A sociologist believes that high levels of education create the opportunity for better paid work after graduation. Levels of education would be the ______ variable in the hypothesis.
What is Independent variable
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A social scientist hypothesizes that smaller class sizes in secondary schools will lead to higher performance on standardized tests. What is IV, DV and is there a mediating or moderating variable? – if so what is it
IV – smaller class size in secondary schools DV – higher performance on standardized tests.
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These variables represent alternative explanations for relationships that are observed between the independent and dependent variables
What are extraneous variables
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What is the direction of this hypothesis: The more knowledge social workers have about AIDS, the more comfortable they are in helping people with AIDS.
What is Positive direction
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Name the 3 broad categories of choices for operationalizating variables
What are Self reports, Direct observations, Review of records
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A student intern is at an agency which serves terminally ill clients. The student decides that for their research class assignment, they want to look at the effect of hours of care on caregiver stress. However the student realizes that the amount of social support that a caregiver has also may influence (positively or negatively) the amount of stress a caregiver experiences. What is IV, DV and is there a mediating or moderating variable? – if so what is it.
IV – hours of care DV – care giver stress Moderating – amount of social support that a caregiver has
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A variable that influences the dependent variable after the independent variable occurs.
What is the intervening variable or mediating variable
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The nature of the relationship changes as certain levels of the variable
What is a curvilinear relationship?
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What are the three classes of things that scientists measure
What are: Direct observables, Indirect observables, Constructs
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A social worker in a women’s health clinic wants to look at the correlation between the social economic status of women and frequency of breast self-exams. She recognizes that age might also be a factor. What is the IV, DV and mediating or moderating variable ?
IV – SES DV – frequency of breast self exams Moderating - Age might be a moderator variable, in that the relation between SES and BSE could be stronger for older women and less strong or nonexistent for younger women.
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A variable that can affect the strength or direction of the relationship between the independent and dependent variable
What is a moderating variable
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What is the direction of this hypothesis: The more family therapy/support services a family who has one or more parent in active military duty receives while they are separated lowers the rate of acclimation stress when that parent(s) return home from their tour of duty.
What is Negative (inverse) direction
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Describe the progression of conceptual order
What are Conceptualization,Nominal definition, Operational definition and Measurement in the real world
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From Abstract – The authors explored the relationship among child sexual abuse, physical and mental health work barriers and employment outcomes using a large panel or current and former welfare recipients. Their hypothesis was: Child sexual abuse(CSA) is negatively related to women’s employment outcomes Lee, S.J. & Tolman, R.M. (2006). Childhood sexual abuse and adult work outcomes. Social Work Research, 30 (2) 83-92. Is there a mediating or moderating variable? – if so what is it.
What is The connection between CSA and employment is mediated by mental and physical health barriers that may directly or indirectly result from CSA