What did the researchers control for and why do you think they controlled for that?
Understanding Published Research
- Generate an APA perfect entry in a reference list for this paper. (1)
The research asked participants about their social media use overall and their time in specific categories. They then asked participants about their
- Thin-ideal internalisation, that is how much participants had internalised the ideal of being thin – higher scores means a higher level of thin idealisation.
- Appearance comparison, that is, how often participants compared their appearance to others – higher scores means participants compared their appearance more
- Appearance evaluation, that is, how satisfied participants were with their overall appearance – high scores mean higher appearance
- Body surveillance, that is, how regularly participants thought about their bodies – high scores mean higher levels of body
- Drive for thinness which is a measure of disordered eating – high scores mean more characteristics of disordered eating
The results are below
- What did the researchers control for and why do you think they controlled for that? (3)
- Select two of the outcome measures and report the correlations in APA style. The degrees of freedom was 257. (5)
- Compare the relationships between the two outcome measures you have selected. (5)
