Most research findings to date report a well-known relationship between gender and suicide attempts. However, when a researcher ran his analysis, he kept finding that there was no significant relationship between gender and suicide attempts. He later found out that the females in the study were advised by their husbands to report fewer incidents of suicide attempts than they had actually committed in the past year. This researcher’s findings were influenced by a ______.

a. mediator
b. control variable
c. moderator
d. confounding variable


Ans: A

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