QUESTIONS/ANSWERS

Questions/Answers



Questions/Answers

(Chapter 1, Applied Problem 3)

The quantitative part in the given scenario is the structured questionnaires. Using closd ended questionnaire will generate the quantitative data. If the reseacher uses the Interview with open-ended questions then he would be employing the qualitative research.

b. Coding the words and looking for common themes among people's answers to the question. This is the way the reseacher would be analyzing the qualitative data.

(Chapter2, Q5)

The research problem addresses what researchers perceive is wrong, missing, or puzzling, or what requires changing, in the world. Presentations of the research problem typically set the stage for the study that will be, or that was, conducted by offering evidence that the problem exists and for whom and by establishing the significance of the problem and why it requires formal inquiry. The research problem, the details of which are fleshed out in a literature review that critically addresses what is known and yet to be known about the problem and how it has been conceptualized and studied to date, leads directly to the research purpose(s) and research question(s).

The research problem may be a clinical/practice, theoretical/disciplinary, or methodological problem. An example of a clinical/practice problem is that virtually perfect medication adherence—as conventionally defined in the health sciences literature—is required to prevent the transmission, and development of resistant strains, of HIV. Although numerous studies have indicated that adherence is sporadic, few of them offer explanations for this state of affairs that are useful in practice. The research purpose, therefore, is to study adherence practices in a group of HIV-positive patients to explain the circumstances for taking or refusing medication. An example of a theoretical/disciplinary problem is that medication adherence has typically been treated in empirical health sciences research as a behavior characterizing individuals whereby they either take or do not take medications as physicians prescribe them. Because of this narrow view of adherence, the findings of empirical studies of medication adherence have been inconsistent, contradictory, and inconclusive.

(Chapter3,Q4)

In the given scenario the independent variable is the age of the parents when they married. By definition the independent variable is the one which is being causing some changes in the dependent variable after the alteration.

The dependent variable is the one which is observed as a cause of the alteration in the independent variable. IN the given case the dependent variable is the amount of the child abuse.

In order to examine the causal effects of an independent variable on a dependent variable certain manipulations need to be tries. Manipulations simply mean that we create different kinds levels of the independent variables to assess the impact on the dependent variable. If the independent variable is an active variable then we manipulate the values of the variable to study its affect on another variable. An attribute variable is a variable where we do not alter the variable during the study. So by looking at the definition we can say that the independent variable in this case in ...