{"id":16981,"date":"2023-04-24T22:32:56","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T22:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/research-proposal-what-is-the-relationship-between-gender-and-mass-suicide-do-men-and-women-differ-in-their-likelihood-of-participating-in-a-mass-suicide-and-if-so-what-factors-contribute-to-thes\/"},"modified":"2023-04-24T22:32:56","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T22:32:56","slug":"research-proposal-what-is-the-relationship-between-gender-and-mass-suicide-do-men-and-women-differ-in-their-likelihood-of-participating-in-a-mass-suicide-and-if-so-what-factors-contribute-to-thes","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/research-proposal-what-is-the-relationship-between-gender-and-mass-suicide-do-men-and-women-differ-in-their-likelihood-of-participating-in-a-mass-suicide-and-if-so-what-factors-contribute-to-thes\/","title":{"rendered":"Research proposal: “What is the relationship between gender and mass suicide? Do men and women differ in their likelihood of participating in a mass suicide, and if so, what factors contribute to these gender differences?”"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this Methodological Design section, you will demonstrate your learning of the<\/p>\n

methodological tools and understanding of the research process by applying it to your<\/div>\n
own research design. In other words, in this part, the course content will be applied to<\/div>\n
your own research proposal. Furthermore, it is also important to note the connection<\/div>\n
between the \u201cLiterature Review\u201d and \u201cMethodological Design\u201d sections of the research<\/div>\n
proposal. That is, while the literature review presents your critical evaluation of the past<\/div>\n
work by other researchers, methodological design presents your own research proposal<\/div>\n
for a new research, which has its inspirations from the past work, but has also new<\/div>\n
dimensions and reasons to offer a new research design.<\/div>\n
The Methodological Design is broken down into four parts. Please read below carefully. <\/div>\n
Note 1: All methodological design sections are expected to be answered in a Q&A<\/div>\n
format, unlike the literature review which is written in an essay format.<\/div>\n
Note 2: Each methodological design assignment is expected to be 1-2 pages (doublespace); hence, they are relatively short assignments.<\/div>\n
Methodological Design I :<\/div>\n
In this part, please answer the questions below for your own research topic and proposal.<\/div>\n
a) What is your research topic?<\/div>\n
b) What is your research question? What exactly is it that you want to investigate in this<\/div>\n
research?<\/div>\n
c) What are your hypotheses?<\/div>\n
d) What are your units of analysis (i.e. who\/what is the subjects of this study?)<\/div>\n
e) What are your main variables and their attributes? How will you define and measure<\/div>\n
them?<\/div>\n
f) How do you relate those variables to each other? That is, in your opinion, what kinds<\/div>\n
of cause and effect relationships exist among the variables? What is\/are the dependent<\/div>\n
variable(s)? What is\/are the independent variable(s)? What type of positive or negative<\/div>\n
correlation(s) do you identify among the variables?<\/div>\n
Methodological Design II:<\/div>\n
In this second part of the methodological design, please answer the questions below:<\/div>\n
a) What types of necessary and sufficient causes do you identify in this study?<\/div>\n
b) What type of a logical model are you following in this proposal? Deduction or<\/div>\n
induction, and how?<\/div>\n
c) At what different levels do you create your variables? i.e. nominal, ordinal, interval or<\/div>\n
ratio? Describe how and why?<\/div>\n
d) What kinds of spurious and non-spurious relationships could be noted among the<\/div>\n
variables in this study?<\/div>\n
Methodological Design III:<\/div>\n
a) Discuss your variables and measurements in terms of validity concerns. That is, how<\/div>\n
do you evaluate their face validity\/criterion-related validity\/construct validity\/content<\/div>\n
validity?<\/div>\n
b) Sampling: -Who is the population and the sample in this research? Provide the<\/div>\n
rationale for the number of subjects for the study. Discuss this in terms of generalizability<\/div>\n
of your findings.<\/div>\n
c) In order to create a representative sample, which type of sampling method do you think<\/div>\n
would be a good fit to your research, a) non-probability sampling, or b) probability<\/div>\n
sampling? Or both?<\/div>\n
d) What specific type of either non-probability or probability sampling would you<\/div>\n
choose?<\/div>\n
Methodological Design IV:<\/div>\n
In this fourth part of the methodological design, you will practice creating a Survey or<\/div>\n
Interview Questionnaire. Please read the instructions below carefully:<\/div>\n
A questionnaire should be a type of text which has a specific organization and inner<\/div>\n
consistency. It is not a simple list of questions, but questions organized around certain<\/div>\n
themes\/variables, measuring aspects of the topic in a systematic way.<\/div>\n
a) Discuss briefly why you choose in your research a survey instead of an interview or<\/div>\n
vice versa, or why you choose to use both. Also, discuss what are the main dimensions of<\/div>\n
the topic that you want to measure in this survey\/interview.<\/div>\n
b) Practice creating at least 4 questions for your survey\/interview questionnaire. Make<\/div>\n
sure you employ all types of question formats, that is:<\/div>\n
 \u2013 close-ended<\/div>\n
\u2013 open-ended<\/div>\n
\u2013 statements<\/div>\n
\u2013 contingency questions.<\/div>\n
**In this Methodological Design section, you will demonstrate your learning of the<\/div>\n
methodological tools and understanding of the research process by applying it to your<\/div>\n
own research design. In other words, in this part, the course content will be applied to<\/div>\n
your own research proposal. Furthermore, it is also important to note the connection<\/div>\n
between the \u201cLiterature Review\u201d and \u201cMethodological Design\u201d sections of the research<\/div>\n
proposal. That is, while the literature review presents your critical evaluation of the past<\/div>\n
work by other researchers, methodological design presents your own research proposal<\/div>\n
for a new research, which has its inspirations from the past work, but has also new<\/div>\n
dimensions and reasons to offer a new research design.<\/div>\n
The Methodological Design is broken down into four parts. Please read below carefully. <\/div>\n
Note 1: All methodological design sections are expected to be answered in a Q&A<\/div>\n
format, unlike the literature review which is written in an essay format.<\/div>\n
Note 2: Each methodological design assignment is expected to be 1-2 pages (doublespace); hence, they are relatively short assignments.<\/div>\n
Methodological Design I :<\/div>\n
In this part, please answer the questions below for your own research topic and proposal.<\/div>\n
a) What is your research topic?<\/div>\n
b) What is your research question? What exactly is it that you want to investigate in this<\/div>\n
research?<\/div>\n
c) What are your hypotheses?<\/div>\n
d) What are your units of analysis (i.e. who\/what is the subjects of this study?)<\/div>\n
e) What are your main variables and their attributes? How will you define and measure<\/div>\n
them?<\/div>\n
f) How do you relate those variables to each other? That is, in your opinion, what kinds<\/div>\n
of cause and effect relationships exist among the variables? What is\/are the dependent<\/div>\n
variable(s)? What is\/are the independent variable(s)? What type of positive or negative<\/div>\n
correlation(s) do you identify among the variables?<\/div>\n
Methodological Design II:<\/div>\n
In this second part of the methodological design, please answer the questions below:<\/div>\n
a) What types of necessary and sufficient causes do you identify in this study?<\/div>\n
b) What type of a logical model are you following in this proposal? Deduction or<\/div>\n
induction, and how?<\/div>\n
c) At what different levels do you create your variables? i.e. nominal, ordinal, interval or<\/div>\n
ratio? Describe how and why?<\/div>\n
d) What kinds of spurious and non-spurious relationships could be noted among the<\/div>\n
variables in this study?<\/div>\n
Methodological Design III:<\/div>\n
a) Discuss your variables and measurements in terms of validity concerns. That is, how<\/div>\n
do you evaluate their face validity\/criterion-related validity\/construct validity\/content<\/div>\n
validity?<\/div>\n
b) Sampling: -Who is the population and the sample in this research? Provide the<\/div>\n
rationale for the number of subjects for the study. Discuss this in terms of generalizability<\/div>\n
of your findings.<\/div>\n
c) In order to create a representative sample, which type of sampling method do you think<\/div>\n
would be a good fit to your research, a) non-probability sampling, or b) probability<\/div>\n
sampling? Or both?<\/div>\n
d) What specific type of either non-probability or probability sampling would you<\/div>\n
choose?<\/div>\n
Methodological Design IV:<\/div>\n
In this fourth part of the methodological design, you will practice creating a Survey or<\/div>\n
Interview Questionnaire. Please read the instructions below carefully:<\/div>\n
A questionnaire should be a type of text which has a specific organization and inner<\/div>\n
consistency. It is not a simple list of questions, but questions organized around certain<\/div>\n
themes\/variables, measuring aspects of the topic in a systematic way.<\/div>\n
a) Discuss briefly why you choose in your research a survey instead of an interview or<\/div>\n
vice versa, or why you choose to use both. Also, discuss what are the main dimensions of<\/div>\n
the topic that you want to measure in this survey\/interview.<\/div>\n
b) Practice creating at least 4 questions for your survey\/interview questionnaire. Make<\/div>\n
sure you employ all types of question formats, that is:<\/div>\n
 \u2013 close-ended<\/div>\n
\u2013 open-ended<\/div>\n
\u2013 statements<\/div>\n
\u2013 contingency questions.<\/div>\n
**In this Methodological Design section, you will demonstrate your learning of the<\/div>\n
methodological tools and understanding of the research process by applying it to your<\/div>\n
own research design. In other words, in this part, the course content will be applied to<\/div>\n
your own research proposal. Furthermore, it is also important to note the connection<\/div>\n
between the \u201cLiterature Review\u201d and \u201cMethodological Design\u201d sections of the research<\/div>\n
proposal. That is, while the literature review presents your critical evaluation of the past<\/div>\n
work by other researchers, methodological design presents your own research proposal<\/div>\n
for a new research, which has its inspirations from the past work, but has also new<\/div>\n
dimensions and reasons to offer a new research design.<\/div>\n
The Methodological Design is broken down into four parts. Please read below carefully. <\/div>\n
Note 1: All methodological design sections are expected to be answered in a Q&A<\/div>\n
format, unlike the literature review which is written in an essay format.<\/div>\n
Note 2: Each methodological design assignment is expected to be 1-2 pages (doublespace); hence, they are relatively short assignments.<\/div>\n
Methodological Design I :<\/div>\n
In this part, please answer the questions below for your own research topic and proposal.<\/div>\n
a) What is your research topic?<\/div>\n
b) What is your research question? What exactly is it that you want to investigate in this<\/div>\n
research?<\/div>\n
c) What are your hypotheses?<\/div>\n
d) What are your units of analysis (i.e. who\/what is the subjects of this study?)<\/div>\n
e) What are your main variables and their attributes? How will you define and measure<\/div>\n
them?<\/div>\n
f) How do you relate those variables to each other? That is, in your opinion, what kinds<\/div>\n
of cause and effect relationships exist among the variables? What is\/are the dependent<\/div>\n
variable(s)? What is\/are the independent variable(s)? What type of positive or negative<\/div>\n
correlation(s) do you identify among the variables?<\/div>\n
Methodological Design II:<\/div>\n
In this second part of the methodological design, please answer the questions below:<\/div>\n
a) What types of necessary and sufficient causes do you identify in this study?<\/div>\n
b) What type of a logical model are you following in this proposal? Deduction or<\/div>\n
induction, and how?<\/div>\n
c) At what different levels do you create your variables? i.e. nominal, ordinal, interval or<\/div>\n
ratio? Describe how and why?<\/div>\n
d) What kinds of spurious and non-spurious relationships could be noted among the<\/div>\n
variables in this study?<\/div>\n
Methodological Design III:<\/div>\n
a) Discuss your variables and measurements in terms of validity concerns. That is, how<\/div>\n
do you evaluate their face validity\/criterion-related validity\/construct validity\/content<\/div>\n
validity?<\/div>\n
b) Sampling: -Who is the population and the sample in this research? Provide the<\/div>\n
rationale for the number of subjects for the study. Discuss this in terms of generalizability<\/div>\n
of your findings.<\/div>\n
c) In order to create a representative sample, which type of sampling method do you think<\/div>\n
would be a good fit to your research, a) non-probability sampling, or b) probability<\/div>\n
sampling? Or both?<\/div>\n
d) What specific type of either non-probability or probability sampling would you<\/div>\n
choose?<\/div>\n
Methodological Design IV:<\/div>\n
In this fourth part of the methodological design, you will practice creating a Survey or<\/div>\n
Interview Questionnaire. Please read the instructions below carefully:<\/div>\n
A questionnaire should be a type of text which has a specific organization and inner<\/div>\n
consistency. It is not a simple list of questions, but questions organized around certain<\/div>\n
themes\/variables, measuring aspects of the topic in a systematic way.<\/div>\n
a) Discuss briefly why you choose in your research a survey instead of an interview or<\/div>\n
vice versa, or why you choose to use both. Also, discuss what are the main dimensions of<\/div>\n
the topic that you want to measure in this survey\/interview.<\/div>\n
b) Practice creating at least 4 questions for your survey\/interview questionnaire. Make<\/div>\n
sure you employ all types of question formats, that is:<\/div>\n
 \u2013 close-ended<\/div>\n
\u2013 open-ended<\/div>\n
\u2013 statements<\/div>\n
\u2013 contingency questions.<\/div>\n
**In this Methodological Design section, you will demonstrate your learning of the<\/div>\n
methodological tools and understanding of the research process by applying it to your<\/div>\n
own research design. In other words, in this part, the course content will be applied to<\/div>\n
your own research proposal. Furthermore, it is also important to note the connection<\/div>\n
between the \u201cLiterature Review\u201d and \u201cMethodological Design\u201d sections of the research<\/div>\n
proposal. That is, while the literature review presents your critical evaluation of the past<\/div>\n
work by other researchers, methodological design presents your own research proposal<\/div>\n
for a new research, which has its inspirations from the past work, but has also new<\/div>\n
dimensions and reasons to offer a new research design.<\/div>\n
The Methodological Design is broken down into four parts. Please read below carefully. <\/div>\n
Note 1: All methodological design sections are expected to be answered in a Q&A<\/div>\n
format, unlike the literature review which is written in an essay format.<\/div>\n
Note 2: Each methodological design assignment is expected to be 1-2 pages (doublespace); hence, they are relatively short assignments.<\/div>\n
Methodological Design I :<\/div>\n
In this part, please answer the questions below for your own research topic and proposal.<\/div>\n
a) What is your research topic?<\/div>\n
b) What is your research question? What exactly is it that you want to investigate in this<\/div>\n
research?<\/div>\n
c) What are your hypotheses?<\/div>\n
d) What are your units of analysis (i.e. who\/what is the subjects of this study?)<\/div>\n
e) What are your main variables and their attributes? How will you define and measure<\/div>\n
them?<\/div>\n
f) How do you relate those variables to each other? That is, in your opinion, what kinds<\/div>\n
of cause and effect relationships exist among the variables? What is\/are the dependent<\/div>\n
variable(s)? What is\/are the independent variable(s)? What type of positive or negative<\/div>\n
correlation(s) do you identify among the variables?<\/div>\n
Methodological Design II:<\/div>\n
In this second part of the methodological design, please answer the questions below:<\/div>\n
a) What types of necessary and sufficient causes do you identify in this study?<\/div>\n
b) What type of a logical model are you following in this proposal? Deduction or<\/div>\n
induction, and how?<\/div>\n
c) At what different levels do you create your variables? i.e. nominal, ordinal, interval or<\/div>\n
ratio? Describe how and why?<\/div>\n
d) What kinds of spurious and non-spurious relationships could be noted among the<\/div>\n
variables in this study?<\/div>\n
Methodological Design III:<\/div>\n
a) Discuss your variables and measurements in terms of validity concerns. That is, how<\/div>\n
do you evaluate their face validity\/criterion-related validity\/construct validity\/content<\/div>\n
validity?<\/div>\n
b) Sampling: -Who is the population and the sample in this research? Provide the<\/div>\n
rationale for the number of subjects for the study. Discuss this in terms of generalizability<\/div>\n
of your findings.<\/div>\n
c) In order to create a representative sample, which type of sampling method do you think<\/div>\n
would be a good fit to your research, a) non-probability sampling, or b) probability<\/div>\n
sampling? Or both?<\/div>\n
d) What specific type of either non-probability or probability sampling would you<\/div>\n
choose?<\/div>\n
Methodological Design IV:<\/div>\n
In this fourth part of the methodological design, you will practice creating a Survey or<\/div>\n
Interview Questionnaire. Please read the instructions below carefully:<\/div>\n
A questionnaire should be a type of text which has a specific organization and inner<\/div>\n
consistency. It is not a simple list of questions, but questions organized around certain<\/div>\n
themes\/variables, measuring aspects of the topic in a systematic way.<\/div>\n
a) Discuss briefly why you choose in your research a survey instead of an interview or<\/div>\n
vice versa, or why you choose to use both. Also, discuss what are the main dimensions of<\/div>\n
the topic that you want to measure in this survey\/interview.<\/div>\n
b) Practice creating at least 4 questions for your survey\/interview questionnaire. Make<\/div>\n
sure you employ all types of question formats, that is:<\/div>\n
 \u2013 close-ended<\/div>\n
\u2013 open-ended<\/div>\n
\u2013 statements<\/div>\n
\u2013 contingency questions.<\/div>\n
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