Friday, November 30, 2012

Research Project

So my for this research project I am going to start sending out a survey to people who I expect will be in the age range of about 14-18. I plan on asking questions that ask how subtly ask how they feel about committed relationships and their thoughts on love. I want to ask how they feel in family situations and if they feel they are supported in their family environment. By asking questions such as these in subtle ways I want to see what some of the positive and negative side effects there may be from an in-tact marriage, or see how an divorced parent family affects the child's view on comfort with relationships and their sense of security. I hope to send our this survey through social media sites and see what types of responses I can get. 
Wish me luck for some good results!

Monday, November 19, 2012

Further Detailed Research Plan

So for now, I believe I have decided to do a survey research in finding out more information about families in tact. I want to get a survey out to people my age, girls and boys, and adults. I want to see a range of differences between how families differed from those of adults and teens today. I want to get my survey out to my friends through social networks like facebook and tumblr. If I can get some people on tumblr to respond to the survey I know I will definitely get some variety. I can get this survey out to people as soon as I am done with coming up with questions. 
I will be using a Likert scale as a part of my survey to evaluate people's opinions on specific situations of having parents who are not divorced. I'm researching it this way to get a record of people's experiences and see how their parents being together has affected them in some way. 

Thursday, November 8, 2012

Suggested Research Method

So, it's time for RESEARCH!
The time has come for me to put Marriage and Family in Tact into action. Though I am not COMPLETELY sure, for now I have decided to use survey research to find out information about people and ask them a variety of questions regarding their family. I think it would be interesting to find out what my fellow classmates family life is like and see what their responses are to some of the questions.
I think with a variety of girls at the school, comes with a variety of responses. I will also reach out to my fellow guy friends (whoo!) and have them answer the survey to add on to the research.
In the name of research, here we goooo!