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Therefore, I reject the null hypothesis and I conclude that males were less likely to choose
Justice/Fair Justification Choices than females. See Table 26.
Table 26
CBVS Test and Confidence Interval for the Proportion of Males and the Proportion of Females
who Selected Justice/Fair Justification Choices
Sample ƒ n Sample p
Male 153 284 0.538732
Female 216 348 0.620690
Test of p = 0 vs. p ≠ 0
Difference = p (male) – p (female)
Estimate for difference: -0.0129917
95% CI (-0.159159, -0.00475523)
Test for difference = 0 (vs. ≠ 0): Z = -2.08 P-Value = 0.037
Fisher's exact test: P-Value = 0.043
N = 632 responses
The next section addresses Story Character Role influence on CBVS Action and
Justification Choices. These analyses test whether having a main character who is a bystander or
victim makes a difference in selecting an Action Choice (prosocial vs. aggressive) or
Justification Choices (Prosocial/Care vs. Aggressive/Retribution vs. Justice/Fair).
Story Character Role
Story Character Role and Action Choice
A Chi-Square (Ҳ 2 ) Test for Independence was used to determine whether there is a dependency
between Story Character Role and children’s selection of Action Choices. The significant Chi-
Square (Ҳ 2 ) (1, N=632) = 6.56, p = .0104, Cramer’s V = .1056, shows that there is a significant
dependency between Story Character Role and children’s Action Choices. Therefore, I conclude
that the frequency of Action Choices is related to the Story Character Role. See Table 27 and
Figure 6.
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