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What Is The Qualtrics Study

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Participants
This study will include questions to be answered on a 5-point Likert scale. Therefore, assuming a population mean of 3 and a margin of error of 1, an ideal sample size would be 36. Based on the design of this project it is likely the sample will be as low as 7. The participants in the study will consist of psychology graduate students from a New England university. The participants will be volunteers that respond to an invitation posted on the University’s MS Psychology Lounge, an online gathering hub for psychology students.
Materials
A questionnaire derived from existing questionnaires; the brief COPE (Carver, 1997) and the LOT-R (Scheier et al., 1994), will measure participants’ use of certain coping strategies and …show more content…

Variations of the LOT and LOT-R have also shown consistent reliability and validity. Carvajal (2012) used only the positively-worded questions from the LOT-R and Kubzansky et al. (2004) reworded the questions in the LOT to change the question’s tone (positive vs. negative), both studies showed internal consistency with the original questionnaires.
Procedure
The questionnaire for this study will consist of six questions from the brief COPE (Carver, 1997) to measure the participants’ use of certain coping strategies, six questions from the LOT-R (Scheier et al., 1994) to measure the participants’ optimism level, and three questions to quantify health related activities of the participant.
An expected outcome of this study is that coping strategies associated with high-stress tolerance will positively correlate to higher optimism levels of the participants. Of the fourteen sub-categories in the brief COPE, three subcategories are more strongly correlated with high-stress tolerance than the others (Carver, 1997 and Welle & Graf, 2011). These sub-categories are active coping, positive reframing, and planning. The six questions in this study will utilize the two questions associated with these three sub-categories. The

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