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I just e-mailed my advisor a nine page, highly detailed outline of the results section of my dissertation. It includes descriptions of everything I see in my data, including justifications, descriptions, and results for all my statistical tests that are worth mentioning. (Most, but not all, of the ones with significant findings, plus the important ones without significant findings.)

It doesn't include much in the way of interpretations, limitations, cautions, links to the theoretical literature, recommendations for the future, or, in short, What It All Means. That all goes in the discussion section, which will consequently be more fun to write.

I'll include the top two tiers of my outline (it went up to seven tiers deep in some places) here for those of you who like to play along at home. I know I've babbled about my results before, so there may not be anything new here, but it's certainly a lot more orderly.

I. Comparability of Disabled and Comparison Groups.
A. The two groups are comparable on nearly every demographic variable.
B. The two groups are significantly different in functional ability.

II. Influence of Child Disability on Analog Parenting Task.
A. The majority of parents did not select physical punishment as an initial disciplinary response to child misbehavior.
B. Child disability is associated with increased likelihood of selecting physical punishment in response to child misbehavior.

III. Disability and Family Stress.
A. Parents of disabled children reported significantly more family stress.
B. Parents of disabled children reported having significantly fewer positive social experiences in the past week.
C. Disability is a significant predictor of family stress even after relevant demographic variables are controlled for.

IV. Disability and Attachment.
A. Parents of disabled children described a poorer quality of parent-child relationship than did parents of nondisabled children.
B. Disability is a significant predictor of similarity to the ideal parent-child relationship even after relevant demographic variables are controlled for.

V. Attachment and Family Stress as Potential Mediators of the Disability --> Physical Punishment Relationship.
A. A mediator variable provides information about how, or by what mechanism, an effect occurs.
B. Family stress is not a significant mediator of the relationship between disability and physical punishment.
C. Similarity to the ideal parent-child relationship is not a significant mediator of the relationship between disability and physical punishment.
D. The relationship subscale "smooth interactions with the mother," which captures elements of social reciprocity in maternal-child interactions, narrowly misses significance as a mediator of the relationship between disability and physical punishment.

VI. Attachment and Family Stress as Potential Moderators of the Disability --> Physical Punishment Relationship.
A. A moderator variable affects the relationship between two other variables.
B. Family stress is not a significant moderator of the relationship between disability and physical punishment.
C. Similarity to the ideal parent-child relationship is not a significant moderator of the relationship between disability and physical punishment.
D. The relationship subscales assessed are not significant moderators of the relationship between disability and physical punishment.

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