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Correlational Design Paper

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Bullying and Eating Disorders: What’s to Blame? In today’s society bullying is becoming a social phenomenon. The intimidation and harassment of children and adolescence by their peers is seen to have a multitude of side effects, some to the severity of self-harm or suicide. Among all possible consequences, the latest of side effects being researched is the effect of bullying on eating disorders. To determine if bullying and eating disorders are related I will use a correlational design to investigate this question. Following my correlational design I will use an experimental design to determine if bullying a cause leading to increased eating disorders. For my correlational design I will recruit adolescence from large cities across the Midwest region who have reported being bullied throughout their middle school years. Students in grades 6-8 will be given questionnaires asking them to rate the behaviors of their peers regarding peer pressure, negative comments, and personal harassment generated toward themselves. To ensure a …show more content…

They will be asked to “hang-out” with one another, including confederates, as they would any ordinary day. The experimental group will also be asked to come into lab where they will be stripped of all personal belongings and put into grey uniforms, such as the ones inmates in jail wear. From there the students in the experimental group will be ridiculed and harassed by confederates for two hours based on their physical attractiveness, athletic ability, and intelligence levels while being given the same gender neutral brain games, sports recreation areas, and unlimited healthy and junk food. This procedure will be repeated three times within a two week period. After each of the sessions the amount of healthy and junk food will be

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