View the Anxiety Data (Sport Competitive Anxiety Test - SCAT)

question 8

Multiple Choice

View the anxiety data (Sport Competitive Anxiety Test - SCAT) collected from a group of middle-distance runners. All the runners completed the questionnaire before being split into either a control group (who received no imagery intervention) or an experimental group (who received an imagery intervention) . The anxiety scores were then measured again after 6 weeks. If we wanted to compare the control group results with the experimental group results, what type of research design would we use?

• A) Independent-groups design
• B) Repeated-measures design
• C) Dependent-groups design
• D) Matched-pairs design

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