Keeping and Losing Contrasts

Is Gaining, Losing or Keeping a Self-Identified Fertility Problem Associated with Changes in Self-Esteem?

Adviser: Julia McQuillan Because motherhood is an expected and valued identity in the United States, becoming a mother should lead to an increase in self-esteem and perceiving a problem becoming a mother should lead to a decrease in self-esteem. Little research has examined the combined experience of both identifying with a fertility problem and becoming a mother or not over time. Guided by ide...

Associations between Stress and Quality of Life: Differences between Owners Keeping a Living Dog or Losing a Dog by Euthanasia

OBJECTIVES The loss of a pet may be stressful to the owner. The main objectives of this study were to compare the levels of stress and to explore the correlates of QOL of healthy adults who currently own or who have just lost their dog. METHODS The study sample contained 110 current, and 103 bereaved dog owners, all females, who lost their dogs due to euthanasia. QOL was assessed with the WHO...

Simple Effects, Simple Contrasts, and Main Effect Contrasts

Simple Effects Following a significant interaction, follow-up tests are usually needed to explore the exact nature of the interaction. Simple effects (sometimes called simple main effects) are differences among particular cell means within the design. More precisely, a simple effect is the effect of one independent variable within one level of a second independent variable. In our hypothetical ...

Contrasts and Classical Inference

Coping and its Contrasts