Psychology BA hons Thesis

johnmaggie11

Looking for help in Dublin on final year project.

JuliusCaesar

What kind of help?

What the thesis on?

Cathquig

Am doing one too!! Are you looking for participants???

johnmaggie11

JuliusCaesar wrote: »

What kind of help?

What the thesis on?

Hi, My Thesis is on Stress between employed + unemployed persons in Dublin.
My hypothesis is that people who are employed suffer higher levels of stress than those who are unemployed.
My supervisor wants me to add some more demographic factors in. He's also speaking of predictor variables+ I'm just not sure about variables at all or where to go from here. At the mo, I've handed in my proposal, which has been accepted but I have to hand in the introduction (4000 words) on Jan 24th. At the mo, I'm doing exams+will finish those on the 14/1. Now I feel stressed.
Any help will be appreciated.
Maggie

johnmaggie11

Cathquig wrote: »

Am doing one too!! Are you looking for participants???

Hi Cath, I haven't got the questionaires done yet, that's another problem. I will be looking for participants in the near future.
I just feel like I don't know what I'm doing with this project. All those stats classes just went completely over my head. I got Bs + Cs in them but I don't know how, honestly.
Maggie

Ostrom

Are you unsure about how to go about fitting regression models, or what predictors to include? A simple model might treat depression scores as outcome, with duration of unemployment, highest education, gender, age etc as predictors. Did any recurring predictors emerge in your literature review?

sambuka41

johnmaggie11 wrote: »

At the mo, I've handed in my proposal, which has been accepted but I have to hand in the introduction (4000 words) on Jan 24th. At the mo, I'm doing exams+will finish those on the 14/1. Now I feel stressed.

From what I remember (hazy as it's been a long time since I done research ) your introduction is mainly your literature review, what's been looked at before, how they went about it, what those studies noted as possible variables or gaps in the research, and then exactly what you want to look at and why.

have you started looking at other studies around the concept of stress and employment (or lack of)? You may get ideas from these about how to go about collecting information and scales to use, you most likely won't be coming up with your own questionnare, see what others have been using.

Just take it one step at a time, each step informs the next.

Your supervisor will help when it comes to the statistics. I was so lost at that point with mine, didn't know where to start, plus I had problems with my samples (and uneven numbers ).

On your topic, I wonder whether the type of employment would make a difference too? Say for instance someone working on shop floor may/may not be as stressed as manager of shop?

johnmaggie11

sambuka41 wrote: »

johnmaggie11 wrote: »

At the mo, I've handed in my proposal, which has been accepted but I have to hand in the introduction (4000 words) on Jan 24th. At the mo, I'm doing exams+will finish those on the 14/1. Now I feel stressed.

I'm getting a lot of great feedback here, Thank you so much.
I haven't got around to reviewing the litrature as my supervisor thinks I should stick to studying for exams+then begin.
I agree that different types of work create different levels of stress. I think all I need is feedback like this to keep me on track.
Thanks again everyone.

From what I remember (hazy as it's been a long time since I done research ) your introduction is mainly your literature review, what's been looked at before, how they went about it, what those studies noted as possible variables or gaps in the research, and then exactly what you want to look at and why.

have you started looking at other studies around the concept of stress and employment (or lack of)? You may get ideas from these about how to go about collecting information and scales to use, you most likely won't be coming up with your own questionnare, see what others have been using.

Just take it one step at a time, each step informs the next.

Your supervisor will help when it comes to the statistics. I was so lost at that point with mine, didn't know where to start, plus I had problems with my samples (and uneven numbers ).

On your topic, I wonder whether the type of employment would make a difference too? Say for instance someone working on shop floor may/may not be as stressed as manager of shop?

how should I name this? + is it a dependant or indepenndant/predictor variable.
Thanks so much

Velvety

Stress will be your dependent variable. Employed vs Unemployed will be your main independent/ predictor variables.

Other predictor variables should be informed by other research (the papers you're reading to write your introduction). You might try using wages, level of responsibility, temporary vs permanent contract, age, job satisfaction. These would also be independent/ predictor variables.

I'd imagine you'll be using an ANOVA to analyse your results. This will show you which independent variables influenced stress, but it will also show you interaction effects between your independent variables.

So, for example, you might find that young people who are unemployed experience little stress but older people who are unemployed experience more stress.

johnmaggie11

Velvety wrote: »

Stress will be your dependent variable. Employed vs Unemployed will be your main independent/ predictor variables.

Other predictor variables should be informed by other research (the papers you're reading to write your introduction). You might try using wages, level of responsibility, temporary vs permanent contract, age, job satisfaction. These would also be independent/ predictor variables.

I'd imagine you'll be using an ANOVA to analyse your results. This will show you which independent variables influenced stress, but it will also show you interaction effects between your independent variables.

So, for example, you might find that young people who are unemployed experience little stress but older people who are unemployed experience more stress.

Thanks velvety, that's pointed me in the right direction. At least I don't feel totally clueless about it now, thanks to all who replied.
Maggie

hotspur

I think you should sit down with a basic book such as Learning to Use Statistical Tests in Psychology (lovely little book which will ground in the basics of experimental research design). Otherwise you will be floundering all the way through.

Cathquig

Don't panic.
Use a good valid measure of stress (eg. percieved stress scale) and ask demographic questions such age employment. you could anaylse it a bit more by asking about type of employment (part time vs. full time), if they person is studying while working (you've probably got acess to the sample in college), if there a significant difference in levels of stress in paid employment or vollunteer work may also be a little quirk to look into and enrich your study. If you're doing a psy course you've probably got a fair few people vollunteering for experience. You can also measure another scale variable like satisfaction with work or quality of life if you think it'll make your study look good and remain relevant to it.

All these things are demographic variables that your supervisors asking about. you can stick to the simple things of age and gender or go into the variables which can be more unique to your study.

And again, Don't panic

EUSSR

johnmaggie11 wrote: »

Looking for help in Dublin on final year project.

I suggest you avoid this road. If your maker gets whiff of this without citations to the "help" you're are likely to lose your degree. Please don't risk all the hard work for some "help". Get an extension if need be, but don't cheat. Good luck.

JuliusCaesar

EUSSR wrote: »

I suggest you avoid this road. If your maker gets whiff of this without citations to the "help" you're are likely to lose your degree. Please don't risk all the hard work for some "help". Get an extension if need be, but don't cheat.

Did you read any of the answers??

This is NOT cheating. He is getting explanations for some terms; some of his variables are being defined. :cool:

johnmaggie11

JuliusCaesar wrote: »

EUSSR wrote: »

I suggest you avoid this road. If your maker gets whiff of this without citations to the "help" you're are likely to lose your degree. Please don't risk all the hard work for some "help". Get an extension if need be, but don't cheat.

Did you read any of the answers??

This is NOT cheating. He is getting explanations for some terms; some of his variables are being defined. :cool:

Thank you all so much for the input, Ive no intention of cheating. I still have to do the thesis myself. Just need the pointers which all these kind people here have given me.
God bless you all.