Hypotheses: Formulate a hypothesis specific to each of the three research questions. You will delete each of the research questions written in red at the end of the introduction section and substitute them with your research hypotheses. The hypotheses should logically follow from the provided literature review. The research questions are:
1. Does general mental health quality of life as measured by the Mental Health subscale of the Assessment of Quality of Life (AQOL-8D), differ between participants who fall above the 50th percentile on global EDE-Q and participants who fall at or below the 50th percentile for global EDE-Q? 2. Does eating disorder specific quality of life, as measured by the Clinical Impairment Assessment (CIA), differ between participants who fall above the 50th percentile on global EDE-Q and participants who fall at or below the 50th percentile for global EDE-Q? 3. Does nutritional quality of life as measured by the Self-Care subscale of the Quality of Life Related to Dietary Change Questionnaire (QOL-DC) differ between participants who fall above the 50th percentile on global EDE-Q and participants who fall at or below the 50th percentile for global EDE-Q? Participants: You will add the participant information to the participant section of the method. Indicate in your method section that participants were students enrolled in a first-year unit in the School of Behavioural and Health Sciences of UNE across the Melbourne and Sysdney campuses and that they completed the online survey outside of class. This section should include a description of participants that states how many participants participated and that includes demographic variables of age, gender, and BMI. Use your knowledge of descriptive statistics and measurement scales to choose the correct type of information to report for each variable. This could be number and percentage, M and SD, Median, etc. Results: Report the results of your analyses in a results section in APA 7th edition style.
o Your results section will need to include one APA 7th edition formatted table in which you present the M and SD for each of the three dependent variables (one row for each), with columns for each of the two groups (i.e., above the 50th percentile and at or below the 50th percentile of global EDE-Q scale). o Note that a results section starts by explaining what analyses were conducted to test the hypotheses and then referring the reader to the descriptive statistics that you are going to analyse. That is, you would introduce the table, so that the reader looks at the descriptive statistics. It then explains the results of assumption checks and presents the results of the analyses (i.e., states whether the differences were significant or not, describes the direction of significant effects, and provides the relevant complete report of the statistic you used to test the hypothesis). Discussion: In your own words, interpret and discuss the results. A good discussion section reminds the reader what you set out to do (that is, what question you were asking?), and then refers to the results that would answer the question (i.e., outlines what the findings were). Remember not to repeat the numbers you already presented in the results section. After that, you would state whether the question was answered in the affirmative or not (i.e., does the evidence/findings support the hypotheses?). Then you can use what you read in the introduction to say what this means for the literature. Remember that there is a reason you asked these questions. You should also refer to possible limitations of the study and say what you conclude.