Checking and rechecking if the door is lock or is the window is closed is called checking behaviour. For people suffering from obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) this check and recheck can become debilitating.
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Q1. Checking and rechecking if the door is lock or is the window is
closed is called checking behaviour. For people suffering from obsessive
compulsive disorder (OCD) this check and recheck can become debilitating. One
theory is that this behaviour is caused by both the mood the person is in and
the rule they have set to determine when to stop (Field, Miles & Field,
2012).
Davey,
Startup, Zara, MacDonald, and Field (2003, as cited in Field et al., 2012)
tested this hypothesis by randomly assigning participants to one of three
groups in which they were induced into either a positive, negative or neutral
mood. Participants were then asked to generate as many items that they would
need to check before they left on a holiday.
Participants were also instructed to use one of two stop rules. Half of
the participant (randomly assigned) were told to generate as many items to
check as they could (‘as many as you can’ – stop rule), the remaining half of
the participants were instructed to continue the task as long as they felt like
it (‘feel like continuing’ – stop rule).
The researchers recorded the number of checks that each participant
reported.
The following are the results were
obtained from analyzing the Davey et al., (2003) data. Using the information provided write a proper
APA report describing the findings. Include in your write-up a brief
interpretation of the graph provided as well as all necessary APA tables.
References
Davey, G. C. L., Startup, H. M., Zara, A., MacDonald, C.B., &
Field, A. P. (2003). Perseveration of checking thoughts and mood- as-input
hypothesis. Journal of Behavior Therapy & Experimental Psychiatry,
34, 141–160.
Field, A., Miles, J. & Field, Z. (2012). Discovering
Statistics Using R, London, England: Sage Publications Ltd.
Descriptive
Statistics
|
Mean |
St. Deviation |
Valid N |
Minimum |
Maximum |
|
|
Checks |
10.37 |
5.45 |
60 |
3.00 |
31.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Frequencies
Frequencies ( Mood )
|
Value |
# of Cases |
% |
Cumulative % |
|
|
1 |
Negative |
20 |
33.30 |
33.30 |
|
2 |
Positive |
20 |
33.30 |
66.70 |
|
3 |
Neutral |
20 |
33.30 |
100.00 |
Case Summary ( Mood )
|
Valid |
Missing |
Total |
% Missing |
|
|
1 |
60.00 |
0.00 |
60.00 |
0.00 |
Frequencies ( Stop_Rule )
|
Value |
# of Cases |
% |
Cumulative % |
|
|
1 |
As many |
30 |
50.00 |
50.00 |
|
2 |
Feel Like |
30 |
50.00 |
100.00 |
Case Summary ( Stop_Rule )
|
Valid |
Missing |
Total |
% Missing |
|
|
1 |
60.00 |
0.00 |
60.00 |
0.00 |
leveneTest(Davey2020SUAss3$Checks,interaction(Davey2020SUAss3$Mood,
Davey2020SUAss3$Stop_Rule), center = median)
Levene's
Test for Homogeneity of Variance (center = median)
Df F value Pr(>F)
group 5
1.7291 0.1436
54
>
by(Davey2020SUAss3$Checks,interaction(Davey2020SUAss3$Mood, Davey2020SUAss3$Stop_Rule),shapiro.test)
interaction(Davey2020SUAss3$Mood,
Davey2020SUAss3$Stop_Rule): Negative.As many
