The results are in!!!! Both of my survey's were send out and I got a lot of interesting results. For my first survey for teenagers I got 19 responses! For my second survey for adults I only got 7 responses I was expecting to get a little more feedback from the adults but since I posted it on Facebook and most of my friends are around my age and aren't married/divorce it makes sense. Like I predicted I figured that most people would have married parents/ be married, but a few people did have divorced parents and are divorced. Everyone who took the survey all said that the media has a negative role on divorce and that divorce is taken less serious than it was 40-50 years ago. This did not surprise me. However I find it interesting that over 40 years
divorce is not as serious as it was in the 1900s. I wonder what has changed this view and if the media has has an influence on it. The question I was most interested in for getting results back was-What are some of the most common reasons for divorce? I gave them 5 choices. Some people just checked all of them off, which was not that helpful. I guess I should have said chose one! But for both adults and teenagers the answer that pop up most was too much auguring and lack of commitment! I figured this would pop up the most, but i was surprised that both teenagers and adults picked this answer. When I sent out two different surveys, i was thinking that the adults answers would vary more because they would have more experience with this because they are married or divorced, unlike teenagers who are still in school. It was interesting to see that they answered similarly to each question! Overall I had a lot of fun researching about divorce and sending out my survey. It was interesting to hear and see other peoples opinions about divorce!
I made my survey on a goggle doc and sent it out this week by email. I have gotten a good amount of responses. Most of my responses so far has been from high school and college students. Hopefully by next week I will have more responses from adults. I figured by sending my survey out by email more adults would responded then if i posted it on a social network. I think that I am going to try and posting it on social networking site and see if I get more responses.
So far my responses I have been getting back are very similar. So far everyone who has taken the survey said there parents are married or they currently are married. I think that if I wanted to get more of a variety of answers I would just post it on the online or hand out the survey to people on the streets. Since I know everyone who has taken my survey I know that most of their parents are married, so I am am getting similar perspectives. By the end of next week I hope to have a more variety of answers from the survey Other similar responses I have gotten are: that divorce is taken less seriously today then it was 50 years ago, and that the media has has a negative influence on divorce today. I feel that feed back I am getting back is good and I am excited to get more responses as the week continues and see what people's opinion of divorce is!
I chose to conduct a survey for my research method. I am going to give my survey out through Google docs. I chose to use the internet because I am sending to some people who are not in the area, and it is easier to get a response through email then through mail. I am giving my survey out to 20 people- 10 adults and 10 kids/teens. Some of the 10 adults I am going to use are my parents, and aunt and uncle and some family friends. Some of the kids/teens I am going to give my survey to include my younger brothers, my sister and her friend at college, and some of my friends from school. Some of the questions that I will ask in my survey include...
1. Are your parents married or divorce?
2. Do you think your parents being married or divorced played a role in your school performance? Was it negative or positive?
3. Do you think your parents being married or divorced had an overall effect on your lifestyle? Was it negative or positive?
4. Are most of your friends parents divorced or married?/ Are your friends married or divorce?
5. Does the media play a roll in divorce? If so how? Does it influence it more positive or negatively?
I predict that most of the people I survey will have parents that are married. I predict that their parents being together had more of a positive influence on them in school and other activities. I can't wait to give out my survey and see what people's responses are.
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