Child Practical Flashcards
What is the aim of your child practical?
To investigate the relationship between childhood and adulthood relationships
What is the sample of your child practical?
20 participants via opportunity sampling from the North East
What is the questions did you use for your child practical?
Questionnaire of 10 closed likert scale questions asking about childhood secure attachment
e.g. “did you seek comfort from your mother in new situations 1 (not like me at all) to 5 (just like me)”
e.g. “i miss my partner when they are not there 1 (not like me at all) to 5 (just like me)”
Did you pilot your child practical?
Yes with a small group of people to see if the questions needed changing/improvements
How did you analyse the results of your child practical?
Answers scored out of 5
Scores for childhood went in one column
Scores for adulthood went in another column
Spearman’s Rho analysis
What are the results of your child practical?
Observed value of 0.65 at P<0.05 two tailed
Critical value of 0.612
Results are significant, so there is a relationship between childhood and adulthood attachment
What is a strength of everyone receiving the same 10 questions about attachment in your child practical?
Standardised so we can repeat the study to see if the results about the relationship are reliable
Why is it good that you collected quantitative data for your child practical?
We can do statistical tests to analyse the results and see if they were due to chance
Why is it good that you conducted a pilot study for your child practical?
To see if questions are measuring attachment or not, eliminating irrelevant questions that would affect accuracy of data
Why might there be high social desirability in your child practical?
People answering sensitive questions about their relationships with family/friends may lie to look good
What is a weakness of your child practical sample?
Small and limited, ethnocentric so results about attachment relationships are not representative of a wider population
Why is gathering only quantitative data not good for your child practical?
Doesn’t give us in-depth detail about attachment so we do not get a deeper good understanding of the causes
Why might your child practical be subjective?
People interpret data differently so it’s based on their opinion, meaning results are less valid
