Correct hypotheses?
I'm writing a master's thesis in psychology - I'm doing an experimental research on stress connected with short form videos and ways of coping with it.
The experiment goes as follows:
The subject is presented with three short form videos in a way that simulates scrolling.
Aftrer that, there are 4 groups:
one gets a possibility to skip the videos if they becone stressed,
second - watches the whole thing and a calm, nice video after that,
the 3rd group is posed with some sentences that help with cognitive reappraisal,
the 4th is control group.
I'm using MiniCope to see if the preferred coping mechanism has any say in how effective the assigned coping is - for example, if person A presents with preferred coping as avoidance in MiniCope, if presented with tha avoidance (Skipping) group, will it work better than on people with different preferred coping?
I'm trying to pose some hypotheses but I don't want them to be directional - just "will the preferred coping strategy influence how well the assigned strategy works"?
What would the correct hypotheses be? Please help, I have already given my professor some ideas and she's not satisfied:')