Variables and Attributes. Mental Health Impacting Juvenile Offenders Recidivism

My research "Does mental health impact juvenile offenders recidivism. This is Criminal Justice Research class



Instructions:

Before writing the hypotheses and conceptual definitions in your research project it is usually a good idea to create a variables list. Placing all of your variables and their attributes in one place helps you keep track of them over the course of your research. More importantly, this exercise helps to identify duplication and gaps in your measurement.



Remember, attributes are the different characteristics or values that a variable can take on. Attributes must be exhaustive (include all possible attributes) and mutually exclusive (there should be no area of overlap between attributes). For example, in Learning About Religious Preference, With a Little Help from Our Friends (p. 173)



A researcher attempts to develop a set of attributes for the variable “religious preference.”

The researcher learns that this is much more difficult than anticipated.

Eventually, the researcher learns that knowledge of the variable (in this case, the differences between religious preferences) is essential to developing an exhaustive and mutually exclusive set of attributes.

list the attributes, level of measurement (nominal, ordinal, interval, ratio), and classification (independent, dependent, intervening) for each of the variables you intend to gather during your research project.