' scores on The Relocation Appraisal Scale (RAS). Physical and psychological health are operationalized as scores on a weighted self-rating scale used in previous research. Degree of independent functioning is operationalized as subjects' scores on the Katz Index of Independence in Activities of Daily Living and moral is operationalized as subjects' scores on The Behavior Morale Scale. A simple background information questionnaire was developed by the authors to assess sociodemographic variables.
The three tested hypotheses were combinatory hypotheses which is to say that each given hypothesis actually consisted of several predictions. The hypotheses were NOT clearly stated and required a good deal of thought before the reader could sort out whether the authors were predicting differences between groups or correlational associations between variables. Nonetheless, the hypotheses were derivations of the research and theory that had been discussed prior to hypothesis formulation, and so were appro
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