Quantitative Research Designs
Child anxiety
Researchers in pursuing their research commonly employ quantitative research designs. The goal of quantitative research is to find the relationship that exists between independent and dependent variables in a given population (Babbie 2010). Various research studies about child anxiety have adopted different quantitative research designs in their quest to determining any relationships that do exist between different variables. The two articles are: Unique Roles of Mothering and Fathering in Child Anxiety; Moderation by Child’s Age and Gender and Anxiety Symptoms in African American Children: Relations with Ethnic Pride, Anxiety Sensitivity, and Parenting.
In the article,” Unique Roles of Mothering and Fathering in Child Anxiety; Moderation by Child’s Age and Gender” the type of quantitative research design adopted is descriptive. This is because; the subjects or the participated were measured only once. The children and parents completed the SCARED-71 item questionnaire once whereby scores were recorded and analyzed. Anxiety among adolescent increased with the parental autonomy and vice versa. This type of research was therefore appropriate because, it is easier to make associations between various variables and it reduced the levels of biasness as the researcher keeps distance from participating subjects.
In the article, “Anxiety Symptoms in African American Children: Relations with Ethnic Pride, Anxiety Sensitivity, and Parenting” the researcher used descriptive research method to carry out the study. In the study, researchers found out that anxiety among children depended on the level of parental acceptance. When there is high-perceived parental acceptance the children reports high level of social anxiety symptoms. Considering the topic of study, this method was appropriate as it allowed establishment of relationship between various variable under the study. Furthermore, it provides an opportunity for replication of the research, analysis and comparison with other studies in future. It also involved greater number of subjects hence enhanced generalization of results. Therefore, I find the research designs adopted in the study appropriate and suitable.
There are various ramifications of choosing inappropriate design for a research design and therefore, researchers should be keen on this. One of the ramifications is that problems of biasness and false representation are deemed to happen (Babbie 2010). Other ramifications are lack of objective results or findings that may lead to skewed results. Hence, it is important that before a given research design is adopted, is imperative to determine whether it is descriptive or experimental as it may affect the whole process of data gathering, analysis and interpretations of results.
References
Babbie, R. (2010). The Practice of Social Research. 12th ed. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Cengage, 2010. Retrieved from: http://libguides.usc.edu/content.php?pid=83009&sid=615867
Gray, C., Carter, R., & Silverman, W. (2011). Anxiety Symptoms in African American Children: Relations with Ethnic Pride, Anxiety Sensitivity, and Parenting, Journal of Child & Family Studies, 20(2): 205-213.
Verhoeven, M., Bogels, S., & Bruggen, C. (2012). Unique Roles of Mothering and Fathering in Child Anxiety; Moderation by Child’s Age and Gender, Journal of Child & Family Studies, 21(2):331-343.
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