Question

A researcher is interested in determining whether difficulties experienced during giving birth have any influence on the eventual development of mother/child relationship. By examining hospital records, the researcher identifies women who had easy and difficult deliveries and gives them a questionnaire measuring the quality of relationship between mother and child. An independent samples t-test is performed and the following summary of the results is obtained:

Descriptive Statistics

Variable	Mean	SD	n
Difficult Delivery	82	9.62	5
Easy Delivery	68	8.37	5

t-test

t		df	Mean Difference	Standard error of the mean difference	Sig.	95% CI of the difference
						Lower	Upper
2.46		8	14	5.7	0.04	0.86	27.14

Reproduce the standard error of the mean difference using information from the tables. Show your work.

Answer 1