1. The researchers in this study worked very hard to create a stress rating questionnaire that actually measured participants’ stress (rather than worry, health, or some other aspect of their lives). Which type of validity does this maximize? (explain your answer) When designing their questionnaire, the researchers made some very specific, deliberate choices. Analyze some of those choices in the following questions. 2. They included “reverse scoring” questions a. to avoid what behavior from participants? b. Why is the behavior in (a) a problem?
Psychologists wanted to examine whether practicing mindfulness reduces students’ stress levels. In their study, participants watched a short video explaining mindfulness and telling them how to spend a 3-minute period in a “mindfulness moment.” Each day for 7 days after watching the video, participants received a text alert from the researcher asking them to complete a 3-min mindfulness moment. Before watching the initial video and after their 7th day of mindfulness practice, students completed a stress rating questionnaire reflecting how stressed they felt generally and in the present moment. Researchers then tested whether reported stress levels were lower at the end of the study than they were at the beginning.
1. The researchers in this study worked very hard to create a stress rating questionnaire that actually measured participants’ stress (rather than worry, health, or some other aspect of their lives). Which type of validity does this maximize? (explain your answer)
When designing their questionnaire, the researchers made some very specific, deliberate choices. Analyze some of those choices in the following questions.
2. They included “reverse scoring” questions
a. to avoid what behavior from participants?
b. Why is the behavior in (a) a problem?
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