Imagine that you are a researcher that wants to examine the relationship between self-esteem and a given outcome (e.g., academic performance, music ability, empathy). 1) Identify WHAT outcome you want

Imagine that you are a researcher that wants to examine the relationship between self-esteem and a given outcome (e.g., academic performance, music ability, empathy).

1) Identify WHAT outcome you want to study -- why do you think this will be linked to self-esteem? How will you measure this outcome?

2) Identify HOW you want to measure self-esteem -- there are a variety of scales and surveys related to self-esteem, based on a survey of the literature (i.e., your assignment MUST include citations), which way of measuring self-esteem works best for your purposes? If you can't find one that matches what you want to do, how would you develop one?

3) Identify HOW you would run your study -- would it be a correlational design? Would you split participants into conditions?

When you have answered these questions, write a brief summary (<1000 words) that includes the following:

RATIONALE: Why is this question important? Why do you think self-esteem will relate to your given outcome?

HYPOTHESIS: What is your specific hypothesis?

METHOD: How will you test your hypothesis? (For example, what would your independent or dependent variables be? What population would you test your hypothesis in? Would you measure this across time? Within or between subjects?)

RESULTS: What results would you expect? A difference between groups? A correlation between self-esteem and your outcome variable?

DISCUSSION: If you were to find what you are hypothesizing, what would this mean for future research or enhance our current understanding of self-esteem? If you DIDN'T find what you were looking for, what would this mean for future research?