People with ______ Self-Esteem Are ______ Likely to Have Positive

question 73

Multiple Choice

People with ______ self-esteem are ______ likely to have positive illusions about their partners than people with high self-esteem and the ______ of illusions among ______ self-esteem people fuels their doubts and insecurities about their relationships.

• A) low; less; lack; high
• B) low; less; lack; low
• C) both A and B
• D) none of these choices

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Definitions:

Ex Post Facto Design

A research approach that examines the effects of an independent variable on a dependent variable after the events have occurred.

Focus Groups

Structured group discussions used to gather participants' attitudes, feelings, beliefs, and reactions to a specific subject or area of interest.

Experiments

Research procedures carried out under controlled conditions and based on the technique of manipulating one or more variables in hopes of observing an effect. Typically, an experimental condition is applied to one group, and the results are compared with those from another group (control group) that has had no experimental treatment.

Operationalization

The process of defining a fuzzy concept so as to make the concept measurable and to understand it in terms of empirical observations.