Discuss Peoples Suggestions Below are suggestions on how the research on couples watching box-sets could be improved. Discuss these suggestions and think about what they’d involve in terms of conducting an effective study.
Discuss these suggestions with 20-30 words per suggestion (basically as short as you can make a discussion for the suggestion) Discuss the suggestion where it says discuss please.
- Based on your experience, write a piece of advice you would give to another group of students undertaking this activity. It has to be 50 words.
- A longitudinal panel study could extend the finding couples with fewer friends watch more media together to strengthen their relationship.
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- Research should include more diversity in participants i.e. in age range, background & educational level.
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- Recruit adults in long term romantic relationships & make half watch media together & another half not. Interview them personally & separately.
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- The questionnaire could be given to the same participants at a different time rather than a new set of participants, increasing reliability.
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- Change the participants. use couples who have been exclusive for a short time and compare these results to couples in relationships longer
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- As media is watched differently nowadays it could be performed using people of different age ranges to determine if there is any difference.
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- The research could be improved by undertaking an experiment with conditions of low, moderate and high amounts of time spent sharing media.
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- Recruiting from a wider subset by expanding the age group and length of relationship, could enhance the generalizability of the study.
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- The participant selection can be changed in order to improve the research as this study asks only students to take part in the questionnaire.
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- Are results of a student relationship/media study generalizable to the adult population? Extend study to a more diverse sample population.
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- Instead of a questionnaire, an experiment could be designed where the participants are put into different conditions results can be compared.
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- The research could be changed to increase the age of the sample size to include elderly couples. You could entail the use of questionnaires.
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- A follow up study should improve validity by using neutral questioning to avoid acquiescence response bias evidenced in the findings.
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- Investigate effect of sharing media in diverse relationship types, e.g. non-heteronormative, non-romantic, disabled, long-distance, etc.
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- The findings showed only represent students. To establish generalisability, future researchers could recruit a broader range of participants.
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- Conduct an experiment: manipulate social media time for couples. Use a questionnaire rating relationship satisfaction before and after.
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- Conduct a follow-up experiment investigating the influence of each media type separately (TV, books, film) on relationship satisfaction.
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- The study could see how couples who don’t view TV together rate their relationship after shared viewing.
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- After a shared activity like riding horse, traveling, camping or adrenaline activity, check the couples affinity and the social life if changed.
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