Topic: The Influence of Social Media on Mental Health
Beginning in PSY 535 you’ll need to have a clear understanding of how you’d go about studying the hypothesis you’ve proposed. This will involve addressing, at minimum, three key elements of methodology: the participants you plan to recruit, the measures you plan to use to study the variables of interest, and the procedure by which you will collect your data. If you are proposing to carry out a survey, you will need to select measures that are both reliable and valid and attach them as an appendix to your final proposal. If you are proposing to run an experiment, you will need to include a detailed protocol. Be thinking about your design will inform your analyses as you go. Because this is a proposal, you should be writing all of this in the future tense. Consult with your peers, your instructor, and your faculty advisor for input.
Three key elements that need to be addressed:
- the participants you plan to recruit
- the measures you plan to use to study the variables of interest
- the procedure by which you will collect your data.
