This type of quantitative research aims to examine the effects of a treatment dicotomic variable (values 0 or 1) on a certain dependent variable. In this case:
- the treatment variable: living together with the couple before marriage. It is dicotomic because it equals 1 when a couple lived together and 0 when one did not.
- the dependent variable: happiness during the marriage
The aim will be to assess whether there is or not a casual relationship among these two variables. In order to so, control and treatment groups should be observed. The treatment group would contain couples who experienced the treatment, hence (living together before marriage), while the control group would be composed by couples who did not undertake the treatment.
Chester's symptoms are most consistent with those seen in "catatonic schizophrenia".
Catatonic schizophrenia, uncommon serious mental issue described by striking motor conduct, normally including either critical decreases in intentional development or hyperactivity and agitation. At times, the patient may stay in a condition of relatively total fixed status, frequently accepting statuesque positions. Patients may stay still in an unbending stance for a considerable length of time or even days.
The answer is; borrowing cultural forms and practices from elsewhere always involve borrowing with modification. People never adopt blindly but always adapt what they borrow for local purposes. Putting this another way, people rarely accepted ideas, practices, or objects from somewhere else without indigenising them.
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