As a researcher you want to study if counseling self-efficacy is affected by age of professional counselors. It is expected that counseling self-efficacy will increase with age of professional counselors.A random sample of 35 professional counselors is selected for this study with ages ranging from 23-60.Counseling self-efficacy is defined as one's beliefs or judgments about one's capabilities to effectively counsel a client in the near future.Counseling self-efficacy is measured using a psychometric instrument called the COSE.The COSE has 37 items using a 6-point scale ranging from Strongly Disagree to Strongly Agree, so a high score means more self-efficacy.Thirty-five participants in three age groups are compared on COSE scores: (1) 20-30 years old, (2) 31-40 years old, and (3) 41 + years old.You will conduct aone wayanalysis of variance using = .05for all analyses of null hypotheses.Please enterand checkthe following datacarefully.Remember to define theValues columnin Variable Viewof theAge Groups variableusing 1=20-30 yrs. old, 2=31-40 yrs. old, 3=41+ yrs. Old.

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1- What is theindependent variablein this research problem?

2- What is thedependent variablein this research problem?