Consider the hypothesis that stress at work causesfamily conflict.
a. What type of research design can be used to determine thatthere is a causal relationship?
b. What is the independent variable?
c. What is the dependent variable?
d. Design an experiment that would allow you to test thishypothesis. (For full credit, your answer must make it clear thatyou are using a true experimental design, so make sure you know andapply the key elements of experimental design.)
e. Imagine that you create two surveys, one to measure stress atwork and another to measure conflict at home. You collect the dataand find that participants with higher work stress are more likelyto have a higher degree of conflict at home. One possibleexplanation, of course, is that work stress causes familyconflict. However, because of the study's design, we can't be sure.Come up with at least two other plausible explanations for theobserved correlation. In your explanations, you should include thekey terms from your chapter that describe them.
