Assignment:
Operational definitions specify, in measurable terms, how we are defining key constructs.
1. What are two different operational definitions for stress? Provide a critique of each definition.
Operational definitions specify how you could measure or identify whether someone is stressed at work:
1. What are operational definitions for the variables "stress at work" and "family conflict at home"?
2. What type of association is proposed between these variables (i.e., positive linear negative linear, curvilinear)? In other words, how are these two variables related to one another based on the stated hypothesis?
3. Which variable is the independent/predictor variable and which is the dependent/outcome variable based on the stated hypothesis?
4. How could a study by designed using experimental methods to test the hypothesis that stress at work causes family conflict at home?
5. How might a researcher investigate this hypothesis using the correlational (nonexperimental) method? Address the problem of determining cause and effect
6. What factors might be considered in deciding whether to use the experimental or correlational approach to study the association between work stress and family conflict?
7. What is one possible alternative explanation or confounding variable that may be related to stress at work and family conflict at home? In other words, what else might account for the dependent variable that is separate from the independent variable?) Select a variable other than SES/income.