Imagine we wanted to investigate the effects of three different conflict styles (avoiding, compromising and competing) on relationship satisfaction. We discover that relationship satisfaction is known to covary with self-esteem. Conducting an ANCOVA will partial out the variance due to the association between which two variables? A. It removes the variance due to the association between all variables.
B. Conflict style and relationship satisfaction
C. Self-esteem and relationship satisfaction
D. Self-esteem and conflict style