clinical practical Flashcards
what did previous research show about how mental illness is portrayed in the media?
- stuart found that the media consistently show a overwhelmingly dramatic and distorted image of mental illness
- this has consequences for self esteem and overall recovery
what was the research question?
- does the media sensationalise mental illness in a negative way compared to the reality of mental illness
what was the sample of sources used?
- 3 factual sources e.g. Gerald had a meeting to stay in the hospitals
- 3 fictional sources e.g. a beautiful mind (2001)
what was the summative approach used?
- define the categories/ codes
- frequency of these categories then quantified and counted (manifest content)
what was the procedure we used?
- selected 3 real life cases and 3 fictional cases
- we wrote transcripts of media cases
- defined categories, verbal aggression = shouting and threats, physical aggression = hitting and pushing
- read through transcripts and counted the frequency of key terms (manifest content)
- latent content = some themes we recorded the context which occurs
what were some of the comparisons found between the clips?
- same length of clips for fair comparison (8 mins)
- most sources female but 2 genders in each condition
- most people of similar ages
what were the conclusions about verbal aggression in both fictional and real life cases?
- fictional = 47%
- real life = 29%
what did the qualitative findings show?
- in real life cases a reoccuring latent theme is abandonment whereas there isn’t always a reason in fictional films
where was more aggression shown, fictional or real life?
- fictional
what is an issue with low generalisability?
- the sources used were all secondary from 1999-2017 as well as two real life cases
- media portrayal may have changed over time
what is a strength of the data collected in the study?
- both qual and quant data gathered e.g. tally of acts and latent content
- triangulation can occur
what is a strength of operationalisation and a CA?
- counting the number of behaviours as they appeared which were fully operationalised before analysis
- CA = some behaviours may be missed
what is a strength of reliability?
- content analysis with coding schemes which were clearly operationalised and using pre-existing sources which can be repeated on multiple occasions to check behaviours
what is an issue with subjectivity of the clips?
- only used selected clips from entire films
- researcher bias may occur
what is a strength of ethics?
- no participants used as it was secondary data
- not causing any additional harm