You\'re interested in the relationship between anger and athletic performance so

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You're interested in the relationship between anger and athletic performance so you get the members of the basketball team to answer the Spielberger State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory (STAXI), which measures trait anger as being more likely to experience angry feelings, perform angry behaviors, and have angry thoughts. Then you see if their scores on this measure are related to their basketball performance.

a) What kind of study design is this?

b) What kind of sampling method is being used?

c) What are three weaknesses of this study?

Explanation / Answer

A.a) the study design is a cross sectional study to analyse anger traits w.r.t the basketball performance

A.b)Non-probabilistic sampling

A.c)

A.a) the study design is a cross sectional study to analyse anger traits w.r.t the basketball performance

A.b)Non-probabilistic sampling

A.c)

A.a) the study design is a cross sectional study to analyse anger traits w.r.t the basketball performance

A.b)Non-probabilistic sampling

A.c)

lower chances to perform a retest on the same scales
not 100% sure in validating the test reliability of the method
little and inconsistent information available to construct case studies

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