As has been evidenced in Marquette PEER project, observing a stressful event from the view of person involved is more stressful compared to the event from the view of a third person.

Since the sample size involved in this project is of autistic individuals, I think it cannot lead us to a conclusive decision in general.

Dear Rubin

Regarding the first question.

i. The correlation is used to test relationships between quantitative variables or categorical variables. In other words, it’s a measure of how things are related. The study of how variables are correlated is called correlation analysis.

A correlation coefficient gives a numerical summary of the degree of association between two variables - e,g, to what degree do high values of one variable go with high values of the other one? Correlation coefficients vary from -1 to +1, with positive values indicating an increasing relationship and negative values indicating a decreasing relationship. A “0” means there is no relationship between the variables at all, while -1 or 1 means that there is a perfect negative or positive correlation (negative or positive correlation here refers to the type of graph the relationship will produce).

ii. Good applications of correlation analyses are available in:

. Validity and Reliability of Students and Academic Staff’s Surveys to Improve Higher Education. Educational Alternatives, Journal of International Scientific Publications, Vol.14, pp. 242-263 .

. Quantitative and qualitative indicators to assess the performance of higher education institutions. Int. J. of Information and Decision sciences,2014, Vol.6, No. 4, pp.369-392 (Inderscience).

. Statistical characteristics of performance indicators. Int. J. of Quality and Innovation, 2014, Vol.2, No.3-4, pp. 385-309 (Inderscience).

Regards,

Zuhair

@Z. A. Al-Hemyari

Sorry, but your answer doen't fit to my question.

@ Nazmus Sakib

Could you name (a) certain article(s)?

Robin,

I addressed a finding from a research project conducted at Marquette University and I was the part of that. The entire results are not published yet, but under review. The "Marquette Peer Project" is concentrated to ASD teenagers.

@ Nazmus,

Great! I will be glad, if you shortly contact me, when your results are published.

Robin,

Sure. Here, in this research, our objective was to predict the emotional spectrum for an individual using physiological data. We endeavored to present an in-depth study that spatially locates the emotions (based on feature space) and identifies variability in emotional perception and overlaps between dominant emotions.

To understand the perception of dominant emotion, following can be a good example.

The emotional responses can be mixed. You can feel happy and anxious at the same time. However, the mixture of happiness and anxiousness is governed by what you do. Assume, one person goes to the gym and decides to lift 200 lb, he may feel a mixture of emotions at the same time: scared of injury, but excited about becoming stronger. Now, a parameter can influence the domination of one emotional state over the other in this mixture of emotional states. If he only lifted 100 lb before and will try 200 today, he would be more nervous (dominant) than excited.  But if he raised 195 lb yesterday, then the dominant emotion would be excited with tiny amounts of nervousness. Here, by the term "Dominant Emotional State," we will mean the emotional states of an individual that influences the most in a mixture of emotional states of an individual.

Hope you will find this paper interesting and it will be my pleasure if this work can help in your research