SOC 316: Methods 2

1. Sean is studying a group of female high schoolers to test the relationship between changing schools during high school and adolescents grades. Once he confirms that changing schools is associated with lower grades on average, he decides to include a measure of the resources in both the old and new schools to see if it interacts with the effect of moving schools on grades. Sean has decided to analyze the data in this way because he wants to test whether

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school resources are a mediator.

being female is a mediator.

school resources are a moderator.

being female is a moderator.

2.

Fayes dissertation research will focus on how the hiring of new employees may influence the productivity of those already employed by the firm or company. If she chooses to test for the importance of job satisfaction after the hiring cycle, she is hypothesizing that

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productivity is actually a predictor of both job satisfaction and hiring.

job satisfaction is a confound that predicts hiring and productivity.

job satisfaction is a mechanism between hiring and productivity.

job satisfaction will increase after new employees are hired.

3.

Biyu wants to know whether parental divorce predicts lower social adjustment for middle schoolers. She thinks divorce will influence adjustment indirectly through a decrease in interpersonal skills among children in divorced families. She also hypothesizes that the influence of parental divorce on school adjustment will be stronger for boys than for girls. To test for moderation in her hypotheses, Biyu should test whether

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the childs gender interacts with parental divorce.

interpersonal skills interact with the childs gender.

gender interacts with social adjustment.

interpersonal skills interact with parental divorce.