Your introduction should consist of the following:Provide a literature review of the construct (i.e. realistic optimism, unrealistic optimism, and pessimism) to clearly define what they are.Identify...

Your introduction should consist of the following:

• Provide a literature review of the construct (i.e. realistic optimism, unrealistic optimism, and pessimism) to clearly define what they are.




• Identify the construct to be measured.
  
  
  
  
  • This is an opportunity to define the construct differently to the way in which your team may have discussed it. If you are using the same definition as discussed within your team,you must write everything in your own words. Copying or paraphrasing the work of yourself or another team member(s) counts as plagiarism, resulting in all students involved receiving a mark of zero.
    
    
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  




• Justify why it is useful or worthwhile to create this measure.
  
  
  
  
  • This may, if relevant, involve identifying measurement issues associated with existing measures.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  




• Include a hypothesis about the expected factor structure of the new scale (i.e. factorial validity).




• Presentoneconvergent andonediscriminant validity hypothesis for
  
  
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  new factor hypothesised in your factor structure above.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  • The following document contains a list of measures of validity that you must use:Assignment 1: Measures for validity.
  
  
  
  
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    You will need to select from these measures and justify your selection of each in the body of your introduction.
  
  
  
  
  • You can use the same validating measure (from the list above) for multiple hypotheses. For example,if it is justifiableyou can use the same measure to provide convergent validity for realistic optimism and/or unrealistic optimism, and/or pessimism.
  
  
  
  
  • These measures will be included in the survey that will collect data for Assignment 2.If you do not use a measure from this list, you will need to update your hypotheses prior to Assignment 2 because you will not be able to run any analyses.
    
    
    
  
  
  
  
  • You can use facet subscales of the validation measures for your hypotheses (e.g. a single personality trait, rather than all personality traits that are measured).
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

The title page and reference list is excluded from the word count.

You must develop your hypotheses based on some of the measures from the following list





. If you do not use these measures, then you will need to change your hypotheses prior to Assignment 2. (Note: validity will make more sense after the relevant week, or after reading Chapter 4A.)

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  'Life Orientation Test-Revised' (Scheier et al., 1994)
  
  
  




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  'Satisfaction With Life' (Diener et al., 1985)
  
  
  




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  'Positive and Negative Affect' (Thompson, 2007)
  
  
  




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  'Twenty-item measure of the "big 5" personality traits' (Donnellan et al., 2006)
  
  
  




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  'Estimation of health risks' (Weinstein, 1983)
  
  
  




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  'Worry about health risks' (Weinstein, 1983).