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Question 154

Dr. Aris investigated whether there was a relationship between competitive anxiety and mental resilience in regional-level athletes.

Participants completed a competitive anxiety inventory, which was scored out of 20, with 20 indicating extremely high levels of anxiety before a competition.

They also completed a self-report questionnaire assessing mental resilience, which was scored out of 25, with 25 indicating an exceptional capacity to recover from setbacks.

a.

Write a suitable non-directional hypothesis for Dr. Aris's investigation.

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b.

Explain why a Spearman's rho test would be appropriate to analyse the relationship between these two variables.

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