Question

(Dependent Variables): I want you to describe two different dependent variables you would want to measure in your college friendship study. Remember, these are your participant responses to the independent variable, so use your IV as the stimulus that will produce changes in your DVs. Think of at least two different dependent variables!​

Answer 1

From the previous example, we can choose participantion in extra curricular activities as the independent variable (which can be operationally defined as the number of extra curricular activities an individual has participated in during college). The first dependent variable can next be the number of friends made during college (quantitative aspect of friendship) and the second dependent variable can be the average time spent with one’s friends on a weekly basis (qualitative aspect of friendship).