3. As a developmental psychologist, you are interested in the effects of parental style on students’ academic selfconfidence.

To study this question, you needed to develop a new measure of academic self-confidence that contains 12 items. What analyses could you use to demonstrate that your new measure meets the minimum standards for use in research? You want to show that parents with an involved style have children with greater academic self-confidence than the parents with an uninvolved style. Which types of univariate and multivariate techniques are appropriate? How could you predict the level of academic self-confidence from the parental style? Outline all of the steps you would take to answer these questions.