Carry out a Study to investigate parents understanding of their child’s emotion comprehension abilities.
Study to investigate parents understanding of their child’s emotion comprehension abilities.
Suitable for 4-11 year olds.
Study involves parents completing a online survey through qualtrics software and a video call with the child. Tec scoresheet used to ask child questions and monitor their responses. Tec scoresheet also used for parents to guess their children’s responses. AQ score sheet for child and parent. All stored on box. Researchers who had dbs checks were allowed to do the video call. Spss software was used after to analyse the data.
Social media / schools / nurseries / family friends were used to find participants. Why we are doing research? Little is known / understood about how accurate parents are at predicting their children’s emotional abilities and whether this is related to their own traits.
Design of study; correlational research design
Analysis: correlational analysis
IV: parents AQ score
DV: Matching scores
Multiple regression was also ran.
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