Under the RESULTS section in the Empty Nest article, the authors report that "...our measure converged well with a multi-item index of marital satisfaction (r=.75 at age 43 and r=.77 at age 52, ps<.01). Third our measure converged well with coded marital quality (r=.58 at age 43 and r=.70 at age 61, ps<.01). This section refers to what kind of measurement validity (chapter 5)?Group of answer choicescorrelationalcontentcriterionconvergent Flag question: Question 6

In the Empty Nest study, being in a marriage-like relationship at each of the three waves of the survey was a:Group of answer choicesthird variabledesign confoundmoderatorconstant

True or False: In the Empty Nest article, the authors report finding a significant interaction of Age x Partner Status. Group of answer choicesTrueFalse

Regarding the Empty Nest article, one might interrogate external validity by asking... Group of answer choicesAre these results due to a potential third variable like income?How well did the researchers measure the IV?How large is the effect size of the association between the IV and DV?Do these results hold for men of the same age and marital circumstances? Flag question: Question 2Question 2Tips1 ptsIn the Empty Nest article on page 1194, right-hand side: “Cross-sectional research has generally found that older couples whose children have left home report higher marital satisfaction than younger couples with children at home…. Cross-sectional designs have been criticized… for capitalizing on selection effects (i.e., unhappy couples tend to divorce; Schram, 1979).” What does this quote mean?Group of answer choicesParticipants self-selected into participating in the study, so it only captures the type of people who are willing to volunteer for the study.Unhappy couples tend to divorce, and then get remarried into more satisfying marriages. So overall marriage satisfaction can seem to improve with age even if individual marriages do not become more satisfying.

Jonide comes across a newspaper article with the headline, “Bigger Weddings Lead to Happier Marriages.” She reads that researchers recruited 418 married couples from a local shopping center and collected their responses to a variety of survey questions, including some asking about the number of guests at their wedding and their relationship happiness (measured with questions about spousal satisfaction). This table presents the results of the study.CRITERION(DEPENDENT)VARIABLE:RELATIONSHIP HAPPINESS BETA 95% CIFOR BETAPredictor(independent)variables:Number of guests at wedding 0.32 [.12, .52]Number of partners before marriage 0.42 [.22, .62]Years of education 0.13 [.01, .25]Personal income –0.21 [–.37, –.07]Religiosity 0.06 [–.15, .27]Identify the validities that are reasonably established in this study.

Your text discusses several studies of marital satisfaction. These studies indicate that:Group of answer choicesyoung married couples are probably the happiest people in any age group.marital satisfaction drops quickly after the newlywed period, but then levels off for the remainder of the marriage.women’s marital satisfaction reaches a low point when their children leave home.intimacy, physical affection, and shared activities all increase over the first 20 years of marriage.