7.3: Content analysis Flashcards
Two researchers wanted to investigate the influence of early attachment on later relationships.
They asked 20 teenagers aged 14 - 16 to write an essay on the importance of family and friends.
Ten of the teenagers had been raised by their mother and father.
The other ten had spent the first five years of their lives in care (and were then adopted).
The researchers used content analysis to analyse the teenagers’ essays.
The researchers devised a set of categories to do this, two of which were ‘references to love’ and ‘references to fear of rejection.’
Explain one way in which the researchers may have checked whether their categories were reliable (3 marks)
Inter-rater reliability is where independent observers consistently code behaviour in the same way
Two researchers wanted to investigate the influence of early attachment on later relationships.
They asked 20 teenagers aged 14 - 16 to write an essay on the importance of family and friends.
Ten of the teenagers had been raised by their mother and father.
The other ten had spent the first five years of their lives in care (and were then adopted).
The researchers used content analysis to analyse the teenagers’ essays.
The researchers devised a set of categories to do this, two of which were ‘references to love’ and ‘references to fear of rejection.’
Explain one way in which the researchers may have checked whether their categories were reliable (3 marks).
Inter-rater reliability is where independent observers consistently code behaviour in the same way.
How would the consistency between the recordings of two researchers be assessed?
The consistency between the recordings of two researchers would be assessed by asking each researcher to categorise the essays independently for ‘references to love’
Two researchers wanted to investigate the influence of early attachment on later relationships.
They asked 20 teenagers aged 14 - 16 to write an essay on the importance of family and friends.
Ten of the teenagers had been raised by their mother and father.
The other ten had spent the first five years of their lives in care (and were then adopted).
The researchers used content analysis to analyse the teenagers’ essays.
The researchers devised a set of categories to do this, two of which were ‘references to love’ and ‘references to fear of rejection.’
Explain one way in which the researchers may have checked whether their categories were reliable (3 marks).
Inter-rater reliability is where independent observers consistently code behaviour in the same way.
The consistency between the recordings of two researchers would be assessed by asking each researcher to categorise the essays independently for ‘references to love.’
What would then happen?
The data would then be compared
Two researchers wanted to investigate the influence of early attachment on later relationships.
They asked 20 teenagers aged 14 - 16 to write an essay on the importance of family and friends.
Ten of the teenagers had been raised by their mother and father.
The other ten had spent the first five years of their lives in care (and were then adopted).
The researchers used content analysis to analyse the teenagers’ essays.
The researchers devised a set of categories to do this, two of which were ‘references to love’ and ‘references to fear of rejection.’
Explain one way in which the researchers may have checked whether their categories were reliable (3 marks).
Inter-rater reliability is where independent observers consistently code behaviour in the same way.
The consistency between the recordings of two researchers would be assessed by asking each researcher to categorise the essays independently for ‘references to love.’
The data would then be compared and, if similar, then what?
The data would then be compared and, if similar, then the analysis is reliable
