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CLASSMATE 1:

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Methods

Participants

A total of 50 Facebook users (36 female, 12 male, 1 non-binary, and 1 preferred not to list their gender) volunteered to take the 12 question survey. (Because I got these numbers from our results, is it okay to have them in the methods section or should I skip the participant's section and put it in the results?) 

Materials

Activity. A 12 question anonymous survey that asked various questions about divorce and the military (created on Google Forms) was posted on 4 different Facebook Group Pages. Link to survey: https://forms.gle/KUH1aCvx1xorX2hT6  (1. I honestly don't know what else to write here, are we supposed to write out all of the questions we had in our survey? 2. We had to close our survey because we liked the amount of responses we got and didn't want to mess our data up, should I open it when we turn our papers in since I want to include a link to our survey in my paper or should I not include a link?) 

Statistics. (My group and I are still coding our results and have not figured out what tests we want to run. The goal is to see if divorce and deployments correlate or not and so far we have converted our qualitative results to quantitative by assigning a number to them. We then can get a couple of means for some of the questions like the age they got married, the age they got divorced, the most common deployment length the service member had, what monthly range of deployment was easiest for them, their gender. We also had 2 Likert scales that we need to convert.) 

What else are we supposed to include in our method section?

CLASSMATE 2

Our research focuses on the stigmas surrounding emotional support animals. To figure out if people’s stigmas about emotional support animals were more negative leaning or positive leaning our group created a survey to test stigma or in other words people’s attitudes. Participants were recruited through email, social media sites, or over the internet in general. Family members were emailed the survey, classmates were given the opportunity to fill out the survey (link was posted on a discussion open to all), and the link was posted on Reddit and Facebook.

 

Our survey consisted of 11 questions total. The first two were demographic questions about gender and age. The next three asked if they owned a pet, an emotional support animal, and/or if they know someone who owns an emotional support animal. The remaining six question were multiple choice. Each “question” involved a statement and the participants had to decide if they strongly agree, agree, disagree, or strongly disagree with the statement. These statements were more positive leaning and were created to find out if the participant had a more negative or positive stigma towards emotional support animals.

The statements and corresponding “Stigma Scale” were created based on the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (Price & Jhangiani, 2018, p. 104). The original scale measured self-esteem based on if the participants answered if they strongly agree, agree, disagree, or strongly disagree with the statements provided. Each choice corresponded to a point value. You can read more about the original scale in chapter 5 of our textbook on page 104. For our revised “Stigma Scale” our statements were mostly positive leaning so 3 points were given for strongly agree, 2 points for agree, 1 point for disagree, and 0 points for strongly disagree. Since 6 statements were given the following math (shown in the table below) was used to create stigma ranges. We are planning to analyze the data based on the total score for each individual participant and for each question. Using a chi-square calculator we plan to measure the association between stigma scores and multiple different categories including if they own a pet or not, if they own an emotional support animal or not, if they know someone who owns an emotional support animal or not, and gender. In other words, we will analyze the association of how females vs. males scored, the association between stigma scores and if they own an emotional support animal or not, and so on.

strongly agree +3	3x6 =18		3x67 =	201
agree +2	2x6= 12		2x67 =	134
disagree +1	1x6= 6		1x67 =	67
strongly disagree +0	0x6= 0		0x67 =	0
	(for individual)		(per question)
Negative Stigma	0-6		0-67
Neutral stigma	7 -1 1		68-133
positive stigma	12 - 1 8		134-201

 

 

 

Reference

Price, P. C., & Jhangiani, R. S. (2018). Research methods in psychology

[eBook edition]. Saylor Foundation. https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/660