Exam 1: Introduction

You decide to do a research study on the issue of technology and social relationships. Your research question is: How does engagement with social media affect the process of adjusting to college life among freshmen who have moved away from home? Is your research basic or applied? Explain.

Qualitative research produces data that are analyzed ______.

Use the research summary below to answer the three questions following it: This article examines relationships between experiences of ageism and four specific mental health outcomes among older adults, including whether these relationships vary depending on age, gender, and sexual orientation. A nationwide questionnaire involving 2,137 participants aged 60 years and older was conducted. Mental health variables included depressive symptoms, anxious symptoms, general stress, and positive mental health or flourishing. Results: Recent experiences of ageism were found to be strongly related to poorer mental health on all four mental health variables. Adapted from Lyons, A., Alba, B., Heywood, W., Fileborn, B., Minichiello, V., Barrett, C., . . . Dow, B. (2018). Experiences of ageism and the mental health of older adults. Aging & Mental Health, 22, 1456-1464. https://doi-org.mantis.csuchico.edu/10.1080/13607863.2017.1364347 Are their data qualitative or quantitative? Is their research basic or applied? Explain your answers. Adapted from Lyons,

Data analysis involves ______.

Which method of data collection is best used for understanding a large number of people's opinions or attitudes on a topic?

Which of the following methods can be either qualitative or quantitative?

You want to understand how adults who were bullied as children dealt with the bullying, and how they perceive it to have affected all aspects of their lives today. Which ONE research method would you use to research this topic? Explain your answer.

Which of the following is an example of an applied research topic?

The IRB ______.

Use the example of a survey of voters' opinions on health care to explain/demonstrate the difference between a research method, a sampling method, a sample, and a sampling unit.

Which of the following is the best research question, based on the guidelines for writing good research questions?

What differentiates social research from writing a library report?

Research on the health of transwomen is largely focused on heterosexual HIV risk, but little is known about the health of lesbian and bisexual transwomen. Researchers used data from a larger study of HIV risk and resilience conducted with transwomen aged 16 to 24 years in the San Francisco Bay Area (n=259). Prevalence and demographic characteristics of lesbian and bisexual transwomen was assessed and models were used to examine the relationship between nonheterosexual status and alcohol and drug use. The research concluded that lesbian and bisexual transwomen had greater odds of heavy episodic drinking and illicit prescription drug use compared to their heterosexual counterparts, controlling for race/ethnicity, age, income, nativity, hormone status and history of feminization procedures. Adapted from Arayasirikul, S., Pomart, W.A., Raymond, H. F., & Wilson, E. C. (2018). Unevenness in health at the intersection of gender and sexuality: Sexual minority disparities in alcohol and drug use among transwomen in the San Francisco Bay Area. Journal of Homosexuality, 65, 66-79. https://doi-org.mantis.csuchico.edu/10.1080/00918369.2017.1310552 Which research method did the authors use? Are the research qualitative or quantitative? Is the research basic or applied? Explain your answers.

Which of the following methods is qualitative?

An architect has hired you to study the way people use space and time at the airport given the increased use of portable technologies. She will use this information in creating her design for the new airport terminal. If you were to use only ONE research method to study this, which would you use and why? Would your data be qualitative or quantitative? Would your research be basic or applied? Explain your answers.

You are conducting a survey of people who have recently moved their parents to an assisted-living facility. You decide you want to include sons, daughters, and stepchildren in Green County who have moved their parent into an assisted-living facility within the past 12 months. Because of resources, however, you cannot include every person who fits this criteria in your study. You will need to use a ______ to decide which of these people to ask to participate in your study.

All of the following are requirements that the human subjects committee would require in order for them to approve your research EXCEPT ______.

Social scholars have identified activist burnout--when the accumulation of stressors associated with activism become so overwhelming they compromise activists' persistence in their activism--as a threat to social movement viability. This study on the causes of burnout among racial justice activists in the United States was designed to bolster understandings of burnout and inform strategies for sustaining racial justice movements. Thirty racial justice activists who had experienced burnout described four primary burnout causes: emotional-dispositional causes, structural causes, backlash causes, and in-movement causes. Adapted from Gorski, P.C. (2019). Fighting racism, battling burnout: Causes of activist burnout in US racial justice activists. Ethnic & Racial Studies, 42, 667-687. https://doi-org.mantis.csuchico.edu/10.1080/01419870.2018.1439981 What research method do you think the author used to conduct this research? Explain. Are the data qualitative or quantitative? Is the research basic or applied? Explain your answers.

What are the similarities and differences between focus groups and interviews?

Choose the research method you would use to most appropriately address the following topic: You are going to research the effect of receiving financial aid on graduation rates.