Question

Question: Your clinical practice focuses on couple counseling. You decide to measure the extent to which years of marriage predict perceptions of forgiveness. Which factor is the criterion variable in your research?

Answer 1

The factor which is the criterion variable in our research is the perceptions of forgiveness. [ANSWER]

Explanation:

The criterion variable (or the dependent variable) is the variable in a study which is predicted from some other variable(s) (independent variables).

Here, we want to measure how years of marriage "predict" perceptions of forgiveness. Thus, we want to observe the effects of the number of years of marriage on the perceptions of forgiveness. Thus, years of marriage is our independent variable and perceptions of forgiveness is our dependent or criterion variable.

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