Week 3: Passing out Surveys
Hey Everybody, I hope you all had a wonderful week! During this past week, in addition to expanding my background literature, I also conducted surveys. For my research project, I am using 2 surveys: the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scales Survey (DASS) and the Cultural Orientation Scale.
First, the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scales Survey is a scale that was created by Australian researchers Professor Sydney Harold Lovibond and Professor Peter Lovibond, both of whom worked with the University of New South Wales. This scale was a “self report instrument developed…to measure the three related negative emotional states of depression, anxiety and tension/stress” (Lovibond and Lovibond). There are 2 versions of this survey: a 42-item survey and a 21-item (abridged) survey. For time and ease, I will be utilizing the 21-item survey, known as the DASS-21. Each of the 21 items includes a question about actions or feelings related to anxiety, depression, and stress, where a participant answers each question with a number from 0-3, where 3 means strong applicability and 0 means no applicability. Then, the overall score is found by averaging the 21 answers together, where a higher numerical value corresponds to lower psychological well-being.
The second scale, the Cultural Orientation Scale, was created by Harry C. Triandis and Michele J. Gelfand. Triandis and Gelfland also described the horizontal and vertical dimensions of individualism and collectivism, which I’ve described earlier. This scale is essentially a way to quantify how a person views the horizontal and vertical dimensions of individualism and collectivism, as it asks 16 questions, with each question answered in terms of applicability to the statement from 1-9.
When these surveys are taken together, they can be correlated to find which dimensions of individualism and collectivism have any statistically significant impact on well-being. This week, I was able to conduct surveys for Ms. Holtzman’s AP Psychology classes, and soon I will be able to start data analysis based on those responses!
I also went to my site placement this week and helped with more outreach prep. I helped put together bags for an event that Native Health is holding in Mesa. So far, the biggest takeaway for me has been seeing how much work and planning goes on behind the scenes to host events that uplift the community and facilitate collective identity. I’m super excited to keep on seeing how a public health-centered nonprofit functions and works to undertake events on such a large scale!
Here are some pictures of the surveys, as well as some of the flyers that go in the bags!
See you next week!
Citations:
https://doi.org/10.1037/t01004-000
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