'Honor and COVID - Moralization' (AsPredicted #156788)
Author(s) This pre-registration is currently anonymous to enable blind peer-review. It has 2 authors.
Pre-registered on 2024/01/03 - 08:29 AM (PT)
1) Have any data been collected for this study already? No, no data have been collected for this study yet.
2) What's the main question being asked or hypothesis being tested in this study? We predict that:
1) Honor values are positively related to moralization of self-reliance among U.S. participants.
2) The relationship between honor and moralization of self-reliance is significantly larger than the relationship between honor and family-reliance among U.S. participants.
3) Describe the key dependent variable(s) specifying how they will be measured. Honor values: Measured as agreement on questionnaire items. Score will be the average across the honor values items.
Moralization of self-reliance: Measured as agreement on questionnaire items. Score will be the average across the moralization of self-reliance items ("Relying on others to...", "Spending despite knowing I cannot...", "Asking to be taught instead of...").
Family reliance: Measured as agreement on questionnaire items. Score will be the average across the family reliance items ("There is nothing wrong with...", "Relatives should help each other...", "Even when they disagree...", "Information is more trustworthy...", "Protecting family from harm...", "One should do everything they can...").
4) How many and which conditions will participants be assigned to? Study is correlational. No conditions.
5) Specify exactly which analyses you will conduct to examine the main question/hypothesis. Linear regression predicting honor values from moralization of self-reliance and family-reliance.
6) Describe exactly how outliers will be defined and handled, and your precise rule(s) for excluding observations. Anyone who leaves the key measures blank (honor values, moralization of self-reliance, family reliance) and anyone under 18 will be excluded.
7) How many observations will be collected or what will determine sample size? No need to justify decision, but be precise about exactly how the number will be determined. Based on a power analysis to find a small correlation-to-moderate correlation (r = .3), with a power of 90%, between our variables, we aim to recruit 113 participants to complete the study but to make sure we have enough participants after removing those who do not pass our inclusion criteria, we will recruit 120.
8) Anything else you would like to pre-register? (e.g., secondary analyses, variables collected for exploratory purposes, unusual analyses planned?) Since we conducted a similar study in Iran, we plan to combine our U.S. data with the previously collected Iran data and test how key relationships (honor-self-reliance and honor-family-reliance) might differ between the U.S. and Iran. We expect honor to be more positively related to moralization of self-reliance in the U.S. than in Iran, and more positively related to family reliance in Iran than in the U.S.
