A director of a counseling agency working with adolescents wants to determine if one counseling method is better than another in reducing delinquent behavior. She randomly assigns 9 adolescents to receive a non-directive therapy, 9 to receive reality therapy, and 9 adolescents to receive family focused therapy. Delinquent behavior is measured using the Delinquent Behavior Inventory (DBI) and low scores represent lower delinquent behavior. Enter, analyze, and interpret the following data, using an alpha of .05. You will be using a Kruskal-Wallis and Mann-Whitney-U statistics for these analyses.

What is the independent variable?

Group of answer choices

non-directive therapy

delinquent behavior

DBI scores

non-directive therapy, reality therapy, family focused therapy

counseling method

What is the dependent variable?

Group of answer choices

non-directive therapy

delinquent behavior

DBI scores

non-directive therapy, reality therapy, family focused therapy

counseling method