Question

(Imagine that your Learning Team has received funding to study changes in sexual attitudes over time. Your task is to design a developmental research study to investigate this issue. Your team will outline one of the following: a cross-sectional study, longitudinal study or sequential study. Identify which type of design your team decided to use and explain why you decided on this method. I believe they decided that Longitudinal would be the simplest.)

Now what I need the answer to is: How will you analyze your psychological data? Propose at least one statistical test that you might use to analyze your psychological data?

Answer 1

A developmental research study will be conducted to evaluate the change in sexual attitudes over time.

For the purpose of the study, longitudinal design will be used because we aim to monitor individuals selected for the purpose of study, for a longer period of time possibly decades. Subjects will be selected on the basis of their gender and age. 100 participants will be selected out of which 50 will be male and the rest will be female. They will be in the age group of 25-30 (Control). A panel study will be done where data about the sexual attitudes of the participants will be collected at different times (1st when the study begins and next after 10-12 years) from the same set of participants. Results will be determined after doing a regression analysis which will tell us about the difference between the variables used in the study.