Imagine we wanted to investigate the effects of three different conflict styles (avoiding, compromising and competing) on relationship satisfaction, but we discover that relationship satisfaction is known to be affected by self-esteem. Which of the following variables would be the covariate in this study?
A)Relationship satisfaction
B)Conflict style
C)Compromising conflict style
D)Self-esteem

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Self-esteem is the variable that is known to affect relationship satisfaction, so it would be important to control for this variable by making it the covariate in the study. The other variables (relationship satisfaction and the different conflict styles) are the variables of interest in the study.

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