Question

Tahira wants to examine the impact of job insecurity on underreporting of accidents among construction workers, so she compares the number of self-disclosed unreported accidents between Construction Company A (with impending layoffs) and Construction Company Z (with high levels of job security). Her results indicate that Company A had more underreporting than Company Z, so she concludes that job insecurity results in underreporting. In this study, what is the Independent Variable (IV) and Dependent Variable (DV)? Group of answer choices

IV = Construction Work; DV = Accident Underreporting

IV = Accident Underreporting; DV = Job Insecurity

IV = Construction Work; DV = Job Insecurity

IV = Job Insecurity; DV = Accident Underreporting

Answer 1

When we see the conclusion the job insecurity results in under reporting, this means that the job in security is independent variable and under-reporting is dependent variable because underreporting is influenced by the job insecurity but job in security is independent and is not influenced by under reporting and therefore in this regard it can be mentioned that

(D) IV = Job Insecurity; DV = Accident Underreporting is the answer to this question