Quantitative Methods Society Event: Making Causal Inference

Making Causal Inference: Studies Using Mediation Models or Randomized Controlled Trial Design

Researchers have always attempted to make causal inferences, but we need to know when and how to make causal inferences. We will have further discussions on this topic.

Thursday, November 17, 2016  |  11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Neville Scarfe Library Block, Room 278
This event is open to public. RSVP by November 11, 2016. 

Moderator: Mauricio Villalobos (Ph.D. student, MERM, ECPS)

Speakers:
Julia O’Loughlin  (Ph.D. student, Counselling Psychology, ECPS)
Geralyn Ruissen (Ph.D. student, Sports Psychology, School of Kinesiology)

“Attachment Avoidance, Alexithymia, and Gender: Examining their Link with Emotional Disclosure Tendencies and Event-Specific Disclosure”
by Julia O’Loughlin

ABSTRACT: To bridge the gap in the literature, Julia and her colleagues investigated the possible mediating effect of alexithymia on the relation between attachment avoidance and emotional disclosure.  They also evaluated whether gender moderated the relation between attachment avoidance and alexithymia and alexithymia and emotional disclosure, respectively.  Additionally, daily diary methodology was used to examine how attachment avoidance and alexithymia predicted participants’ disclosure relating to actual events, with varying degrees of emotional intensity.

“Comparing Acts of Contrasting’: Effects of an Affective Mental Contrasting Intervention on Physical Activity”
by Geralyn Ruissen

ABSTRACT: Using a  randomized controlled trial design, Geralyn and her colleagues compared the relative efficacy of a mental contrasting intervention that targeted affective judgments associated with physical activity, in relation to a mental contrasting intervention that targeted instrumental judgments, and a ‘standard’ mental contrasting intervention.

This event is open to public. RSVP by November 11, 2016.