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Question 137

A psychologist treating moderate depression compares two distinct therapeutic approaches. Treatment X requires clients to complete a 12-week course of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), while Treatment Y requires a matched sample of clients to complete a 12-week course of standard Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). The clients are all male university students aged 18 to 22.

At the start and end of the 12-week period, each client completes a self-report 'depressive symptom severity' questionnaire, yielding a score out of 50, where a higher score indicates greater symptom severity.

Explain why collecting qualitative data in this study might have been a more useful way of assessing the effectiveness of the two treatments.

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Data handling and analysis Questions

  1. A Level
  2. /Psychology
  3. /Data handling and analysis

235 exam-style questions on AQA A Level Psychology Data handling and analysis. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.

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