22. Mouradian (2001) surveyed college students selected from a screening session
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22. Mouradian (2001) surveyed college students selected from a screening session M to include two groups: (a) "Perpetrators"-students who reported at least one violent act (hitting, shoving, etc.) against their partner in their current or most recent relationship-and (b) "Comparisons"-students who did not report any such uses of violence in any of their last three relationships. At the actual testing session, the students first read a description of an aggressive behavior such as, Throw something at his or her partner" or "Say something to upset his or her partner." They then were asked to write "as many examples of circumstances of situations as [they could] in which a person might engage in behaviors or acts of this sort with or towards their significant other." Table 1-11 shows the "Dominant Category of Explanation" (the category a participant used most) for females and males, broken down by comparisons and perpetrators. (a) Using this table as an example, explain the idea of a frequency table to a person who has never had a course in statistics. (b) Explain the general meaning of the pattern of results.Explanation / Answer
A) Frequency tables are used to indicate tell how often something occurs in a set of data. In this case, dominant categories of explanation as to why an individual perpetrated a crime is listed in the first column and the frequency or the number of times participants reported an act under this category is reported in the subsequent columns, represented by F.
B) The general pattern observed in the results is that rejection of perpetrator or act was reported as a dominant explanation for females and males from the comparison groups. In case of the perpetrator group, females reported control motives as the dominant explanation whereas males, as in the case of comparison group reported rejection of perpetrator or act.
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