A research team is testing whether mothers' mental health is predicted by their own ratings of their parenting quality,and finds that mothers who have a more positive perception of their parenting report fewer depressive symptoms.However,they also find that employed mothers have lower parenting ratings and lower reported depressive symptoms.In this example,mothers' employment is a possible ________ variable.
A)suppressor
B)confounding
C)mediating
D)control

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A suppressor variable is one that increases the predictive validity of another variable by accounting for variance that is not related to the outcome. In this case, employment seems to suppress the relationship between parenting ratings and depressive symptoms.

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