Primary Question Posed By The Study

a. What is the primary question posed by the study? What hypothesis or hypotheses are investigated?

• How do relationships effect men and women’s self-esteem and ego differently? The hypothesis for Study 1 was that women rely on relationships for self-confidence more than men, but on paper men will report relying heavier on relationships than women. The hypothesis for Study 2 was that men will score higher on the RELCSW scale opposed to women. The hypothesis for Study 3 is that men are more likely to associate a relationship with social standing, while women are more likely to associate it with connections.

2. Evidence

a. What are the independent and dependent variables? (Make sure you list the IV’s and DV’s separately for each study discussed

Study 3:

1. IVs: perceived threat to relationship, exposure to the idea of a relationship-related negative event and relationship-irrelevant negative event, gender difference

DVs: use of social-stance related words, use of connection words, interaction between gender and condition

b. List out each hypothesis and state whether the findings support or do not support each hypothesis and why? (avoid using statistical jargon. Use your own words)

• Study 1: The hypothesis for Study 1 was that women rely on relationships for self-worth more than men, but on paper men will report relying heavier on relationships than women. The study supported part of the hypothesis because participants of the study voted men as more likely to base their self-esteem on a relationship more than women. Contrary to the hypothesis, though, men also reported basing their self-worth on relationship more than women.

• Study 2: The hypothesis for Study 2 was that men will score higher on the RELCSW scale opposed to women. The hypothesis was supported by the study, men reported basing their self-esteem on relationship status more than women within the RELCSW

Conclusions

a. Write one thing that you learned from the results of this study and briefly summarize it below.

• Through this study I learned that men are more likely to associate their relationship status with their social standing and pride, while women are more likely to associate their relationship with personal interconnection.

b. What is one real-world problem that you believe is related to the article you just read? How is what you read related to that real-world problem?

• A real-world problem associated with this article is that men are more likely to care about their outward status while in a relationship, opposed to women who are more concerned about the relationship itself and the connection within it. This is an example of partial selfishness on a male’s part in a relationship. The study relates to this problem because of the multiple studies conducted as evidence that males are more concerned about social status opposed to women.

c. How can the findings of this study help to solve the real-world problem that you identified above?

• The findings of this study can help solve the real-world problem of men being too concerned about how a relationship will affect their social status by providing evidence that this is a problem and opening male’s eyes to the problem so it can be worked