A clinical psychologist was interested in how differentparenting styles might affect the incidence of neurosis inadults.    Based on observations of her ownclients over many years, she hypothesized that unstructured and laxchild rearing environments were more likely to result in adultneurosis than well structured and disciplined childrearing.   She created a 20-item questionnaire thatasked subjects about their own childhood experiences and also theirneurotic tendencies.   She obtained a smallgovernment grant to cover the costs of administering the surveythrough the mail to residents in three large metropolitan areas onthe east coast.
From these answers she rated each parenting style along a 1 to 5scale that varied from very unstructured (1) to very structured(5).   In addition, she rated each participant alonga 1 to 5 scale that reflected their degree of neurosis from lowlevels of neurotic behavior (1) to high levels of neurotic behavior(5).
What study is this?
Independent/dependent variable is?
How many groups of participants were there?
What type of ststistic can most likely be used to analyze thedata? What is the hypothesized outcome?
Can you think of another way to test the hypothesis?
What are some potential criticisms of the study?
