Sona Research Proposal Paper

The following survey is being conducted as a partial fulfillment of the Master’s level course PSY-520 Research Methods in Psychology II at Southern New Hemisphere University.

Questionnaires are “a series of questions asked to individuals to obtain statistically useful information about a given topic” (Bryant, L, 2014). There are different types of questionnaires that include face to face, phone, post and online.

Undergraduate students enrolled in introductory personality psychology courses at The Pennsylvania State University from the Altoona and University Park campuses will be recruited for participation. All students enrolled in the courses will be required to complete the procedure for this study to earn a grade in the course, however, they will be required to give their consent to use their data in the present study in exchange for extra credit in the course. Those who do not consent to use their data will be omitted from the study and will be offered an alternative course assignment to earn the same amount of extra credit as those who opted to participate. Each participant’s age, race, and gender will be collected for use for comparison

Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Christina McElroy, Department of Psychology, Introduction to Research, Liberty University, 1971 Liberty University Drive, Lynchburg, VA 24515. E-mail: cmcelroy1@liberty.edu

The students were also given questionnaires to assess psychological variables such as life events and loneliness.

The participants were asked to complete a survey. The first step was for the participants to read and understand the information regarding the rules of the survey before they began. After reading and complying with the rules, the participants had a choice to continue with the survey or opt out. The volunteers, were then presented with the newly created measure of fifteen questions regarding their level of anger. Following that were two other measures rating their level of aggression. All the questions were presented for each measure at a time. The participants needed to complete a measure before going to the next one. When the participants completed the final measure, the survey asked the participants to respond to two questions with a short response. When they finished, participants were asked to identify their demographics by answering the demographics questions. A total of 64 questions (including the three measures, two short response and demographics) were given to the participants taking roughly ten minutes to complete. The participants completed the survey online at their own pace without any supervision.

The data for this study came from graduate students at Southern New Hampshire University, who were apart of the online psychology program. The data source represents a convenience sample chosen by the researcher because of the nature of the learning environment and availability of participants. All data were originally collected through Qualtrics, which is an online survey. Due to confidentiality considerations, the identities of the participants were not available. Incomplete surveys were not included in this analysis.

The materials used for this study included PsychMate Student Version 2.0 (St. James, Walter Schneider and Amy Eschman.) Psychology Software Tools, Inc. Along with the PsychMate software, a computer provided by Queens College was used in order to successfully complete the study.

The data for this study came from graduate students at Southern New Hampshire University, who were a part of an online psychology program. The data source represents a convenience sample chosen by the researcher because of the nature of the learning environment and availability of participants. All data were originally collected through Qualtrics, which is an online survey platform. Due to confidentiality considerations, the identities of the participants were not available. Incomplete surveys were not included in this analysis.

Correspondence regarding this paper should be addressed to Samantha Callahan, Danielle Patrick, Sara Roderick, and Kahla Stygar, Department of Psychology, Lindenwood University, 209 South Kingshighway, St. Charles, Mo, 63301

Participants in this study were 119 undergraduate students from a Canadian university. Gender selection was 36 males and 83 women with ages ranging from 18 to 51 years. As an incentive, the Canadian university psychology department awarded the participants with course

The college students were asked to fill out a demographic sheet asking for their age, ethnicity, gender, and educational level. Each respondent was administered a portion of the Korolewicz

A cross sectional, correlational online survey was given to 1,169 undergraduate students between the ages of 18 and 58 who all completed

Introductory Psychology students (N = 305) from a mid-western university participated in the study online for course credit. Sixty-eight percent of the participants identified as female, 32% of the participants identified as male, and one participant did not indicate their gender. The majority of the participants were Caucasian (73%), and the average age of the participants was 19.04 (SD = 1.10).

This assignment is being submitted on June 13, 2016, for Professor Kehiante McKinley’s G148/PSY1012 Section 02 General Psychology course.