Wednesday 30 January 2013
Ahmad, a psychologist and a researcher, is doing research on “Impact of
divorce on Children”. He found after doing extensive literature review that
single parenthood has become increasingly common in most industrialized
countries, in fact, it is one of the most significant social trends in such
countries. Studies found observable differences in comparison of two-parents children with single-parent children. On an average, single-parent
children are more likely to have health rated as poor, fair or good rather than
excellent or very good. Such children are mentally and physically stressed,
aggressive, short tempered, and socially isolated etc.
In recent years, Ahmad found that rate of divorce is increasing day by day in
Pakistan. In Lahore only, from February 2005 to January 2008
approximately 75,000 divorce cases have been registered and from February
2008 to May 2011, 1,24,141 divorce cases have been registered. This
increase in divorce rate leads to more single parents in society which made
Ahmad curious to find the impacts of divorce on children in Pakistani
society. Researches showed that effects depend on the age of children,
child’s gender and overall personality. The major objective of his research is
to determine the impacts of divorce on children and how children and single
parents are coping with them. One of the assumptions of his study is to
collect data from registered divorce cases in Lahore only. Ahmad started his
research with research question; what are the impacts of divorce of parents
on children?
He is about to make a research design in which he wants your help. Propose
him the most appropriate research design by answering the following
questions;
1. What is the purpose of Ahmad’s study? 2
2. What unit of analysis should Ahmad take? 4
3. Propose time dimension for Ahmad’s study. 3
4. What is the research environment in Ahmad’s study? 3
5. What data collection tool will be the most appropriate for Ahmad’s
study? 4
6. Which sampling technique will be the most appropriate for Ahmad’s
research? 4
