Mouradian (2001) surveyed college students selected from a screening session to include two groups:
Question: Mouradian (2001) surveyed college students selected from a screening session to include two groups: (a) “Perpetrators” – students who reported a least one violent act 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 student first read a description of an aggressive behavior such as “Throw something at his partner” or “Say something to upset his partner”. They were asked to write “as many example of circumstances of situation as they could in which a person might engage in behaviors or acts of this sort with or towards their significant other”
(a) Using this table explain the idea of a frequency table to a person who has never taken a course in statistics
(b) Explain the general meaning of the pattern of results
Female | Male | |||||||
Comparisons | Perpetrators | Comparisons | Perpetrators | |||||
Category | f | perc | f | perc | f | perc | f | perc |
Self-Defense | 2 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 4 |
Control motives | 8 | 22 | 9 | 27 | 9 | 28 | 3 | 12 |
Expressive aggressions | 4 | 11 | 3 | 9 | 3 | 9 | 8 | 32 |
Face/self esteem preservation | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 12 |
Exculpatory explanations | 5 | 14 | 3 | 9 | 3 | 9 | 3 | 12 |
Rejection of perpetrator of act | 12 | 33 | 6 | 18 | 10 | 31 | 7 | 28 |
Prosocial/acceptable explanations | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Tied categories | 4 | 11 | 7 | 21 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
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