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The operational definition of a variable is the specific way in which it is measured in that study. Another study might measure the same conceptual measure differently. If you were studying ways of helping people stop smoking, smoking cessation would be an outcome measure (dependent variable).
This is the dependent variable! The dependent variable is that one that is being measured in an experiment and which is influenced by the independent variable - the experiment measures the effect of the independent variable on the dependent variable. An example: dependent variable: happines. Independent variable: income.