Week 10: Data and Results
Hey Everybody, I hope your week was good! This past week, I had my AP Research presentation, and I wanted to talk about the results of my data analysis.
So, in order to correlate the two surveys that I had used, which were the DASS-21 and the Cultural Orientation Scale, I performed a multiple linear regression test, which is a test that uses the known value of 2 or more independent variables and the dependent variable to predict a trend. That means that for my project, the independent variables were the 4 scores from the Cultural Orientation Scale: the horizontal individualism score, vertical individualism score, horizontal collectivism score, and the vertical collectivism score. Then, since I’m trying to see how psychological well-being is affected by individualism/collectivism, the dependent variable in my project is the DASS-21 scores.
Overall, I received 66 responses with an even split between 1oth and 12th graders, and a couple of 9th and 11th graders. This put most of the data between ages 15-17, which was a pretty good age distribution. Here is the result distribution; I know the graph looks a bit crazy.
This shows how the exact data distribution was among all 66 participants.So, based on the coefficients after the multiple regression, vertical collectivism (belief that one is part of a large group identity but there is a power structure existing) was positively correlated to psychological well-being, while horizontal individualism (ideal that someone is completely autonomous and equal to everyone else) was negatively correlated to well-being. This actually completely refuted my original beliefs, as I had predicted that horizontal collectivism would be positively correlated to well-being, while vertical individualism would be negatively linked to psychological well-being.
These results were really interesting because it showed that even in an individualistic-shifting world, collectivism is still having a positive relationship with well-being, reinforcing what I learned during my time at Native Health. Thank you for reading my blog!
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