At 9:09 PM -0500 4/24/99, Dr. Joyce Johnson wrote:
>I think that "anxiety" meets Underwood's criteria for a fourth level
>construct. There are multiple stimuli and multiple responses. The multiple
>stimuli and multiple responses challenges the task of its operational
>definition. It also meets the definition of an "intervening variable"
>because it it is an inferred process that mediates between stimuli and
>responses. Stress would be another example, along with fear and anxiety.
Actually, these would be _hypothetical contructs_ according to
Macquorquodale and Meehl's taxonony.
An _intervening variable_ is one that has no pretense to real existence; an
explanatory fiction.
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