Question

Workers at a company were assigned to one of two conditions: one group completed a stress management-training program; another group of workers did not participate in the training. The number of sick days taken by these workers was examined for the two subsequent months. FInd Independent Variable and Dependent Variable.

Answer 1

answer:

Independent Variable: Group that completed the stress management training vs. Group that had no training)

Dependent Variable: Number of sick days

Explanation:

The dependent variables also called Predicated variable is a type of variable that depends on the independent variable which happens as a result of the circumstances surrounding the  independent during an experimental investigations. it also predicts the  outcome resulting from altering the controlled variable. for example in the question, the dependent variable is Number of sick days

The independent variable is the variable the which can be  changed or controlled during an experimental investigation which dependent variable relies on directly. for example from the question, the independent variable is the Group- (Group that completed the stress management training vs. Group that had no training)