The Text States That the Same Stressful Events May Lead

question 98

Multiple Choice

The text states that the same stressful events may lead to distress and strain for one person and to excitement and healthy results for another. The Science feature of Chapter 7 reported the results of whether the effect of interpersonal conflict on employee affective distress reaction could be moderated by personality agreeableness and social support. Which of the following statements was not supported by this study?

• A)interpersonal conflict serves as a stressor for all individuals and agreeableness and social support can moderate the impact on affective distress responses
• B)agreeable individuals expressed less negative affect than those with less agreeable dispositions
• C)social support was found to moderate the negative effects of interpersonal conflict
• D)agreeable individuals were less distressed in the face of interpersonal conflict than less agreeable individuals

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Definitions:

Population Variances

A measure of dispersion that indicates how much individual members of a population deviate from the population mean.

Rejection Region

In hypothesis testing, the range of values for which the null hypothesis is rejected in favor of the alternative hypothesis.

Population Variances

A measure of the dispersion of all the data points in a population from the mean.

Confidence Interval

A span of numbers, extracted from statistics of a sample, which is probably going to include the value of an unseen population parameter, with a specified level of certainty.