Exercise #1

A psychologist wanted to test the hypothesis that people are more likely to use problem-focused coping when their level of stress is high. Working adults are asked to report the number of stressful life events and the number of different coping strategies they used to cope with these events.


Choose the statistic you would use to test your hypothesis. Think about whether your test is directional or nondirectiona.

 

One-Sample t-Test

Chi-Square Test of Independence

Pearson r
Spearman rs