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Week 4 Discussion:
Program of Study: Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology – Self Design program.
Social Problem: Historically, slaves suffered significant trauma, which was carried forward through successive generations. Over the past decade, we have seen a new surge of significant and blatant disregard for the trauma inflicted on the African American community. There has been no significant research or analysis into addressing cultural trauma and the effects of posttraumatic slave syndrome (Vil, Vil, & Fairfax, 2019) continued effect on the African Americans’ social and psychological difficulties in the United States. American society, overall, continues to ignore the effects of the way society still marginalize its African American community. Allowing this to continue will only lead to a more volatile cultural divided backlash.
Quantitative Research Problem:
There has been no scholarly documentation of the number of families affected by generational slave trauma and its impact on the next generation of African Americans’ acceptance into this society.
Quantitative Research Purpose:
The purpose of this study is to use a quantitative style and methodology to deduct a more logical way to test and confirm the impact of trauma on the next generation of African Americans.
Quantitative Research Question:
How does addressing the impact of the posttraumatic slave syndrome reduces the damage to the next generation of African Americans.
Qualitative Research Problem:
There has been no scholarly research done that identifies the various levels of posttraumatic slave syndrome in prior generations of African Americans.
Qualitative Research Purpose:
The purpose of this qualitative study is to explore the posttraumatic slave syndrome responses of a past generation of African Americans and how this trauma is affecting the current generation’s daily interaction in society.
Qualitative Research Question:
How does the new generation of African Americans respond to generational trauma from slavery when societal marginalization stemming from slavery continues.
Theory:
An intersectional approach to my research questions will reflect on what social problems or trauma cases are encountered among the community being studied. It will help narrow down the research question to mainly focuses on the specific context and social issue. Therefore, this will be a fundamental theory that will be more applicable to my study. Intersectionality is a theory anchored that human experience is equally influenced by multiple social positions such as gender and race and will not be sufficiently realized through independently reflecting on social classes. Applied broadly in qualitative research analysis, its significance has been discovered and applied in quantitative research studies.
Intersectionality outlines the approaches in which various intersecting social categories (such as ability, gender, and race) and resultant interconnecting mechanisms of oppression (such as ableism, sexism, and racism) have an impact on lived experiences of an individual (Hancock, 2019). This signifies that both outlining the diversity of the lived experiences of the communities and individuals and an emphasis on power is core to an intersectional assessment.
Quantitative Research Designs
Quantitative research designs may involve different research approaches. These research approaches are termed quantitative research design concepts. The relationship between variables is critical in developing quantitative research design concepts—experimental research concept factors in the manipulation of independent variables across two groups. For example, the research may consider age factors in clustering sample populations (Baker, 2017). Quasi-experimental research designs consider the natural occurrence of manipulation of independent variables.
A good example is the changing of populations in terms of social mobility over time. An experimental research design that considers a random sampling strategy will be adopted in answering the research question. The selection of scenarios will guide the primary inquiry into data. The research problem will be central in addressing the social problem under the study.
Through quantitative research designs, the research purpose will be to measure the hypothesis linked to the research problem. The quantitative research design will adopt a descriptive design concept (Nelson, Keilhofner, & Taylor, 2017).
References
Creswell, J. W. (2018). Research design: Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approach (5th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Vil, N. M., Vil, C. S., & Fairfax, C. N. (2019). Posttraumatic Slave Syndrome, the Patriarchal Nuclear Family Structure, and African American Male-Female Relationships. Social Work, 64(2), 139-146. Retrieved 6 6, 2021, from https://academic.oup.com/sw/article-abstract/64/2/139/5306358
Hancock, A. M. (2019). Empirical intersectionality: A tale of two approaches. In The Palgrave handbook of intersectionality in public policy (pp. 95-132). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
Shimmin, C., Wittmeier, K. D., Lavoie, J. G., Wicklund, E. D., & Sibley, K. M. (2017). Moving towards a more inclusive patient and public involvement in health research paradigm: the incorporation of a trauma-informed intersectional analysis. BMC Health Services Research, 17(1), 1-10.
Baker, C. (2017). Quantitative Research Designs: Experimental, Quasi-Experimental, and Descriptive. Evidence-based Practice: An Integrative Approach to Research, Administration, and Practice, 155 – 183.
Nelson, D. L., Keilhofner, G., & Taylor, R. (2017). Quantitative Research Designs: Defining Variables and their Relationships with One Another. Research in Occupational Therapy: Methods of Inquiry for Enhancing Practice, 244 – 273.
Concerns that need to be corrected in this week’s discussion.
Your qualitative purpose and question are really starting to take shape. As you note, if there is no previous research on this topic, then exploring the phenomenon through qualitative work will be very valuable. For your research question, you might ask, “How do African Americans describe their experiences with and responses to posttraumatic slave syndrome?” Doing so would provide alignment with your purpose and also use language typical of qualitative inquiry.
Instructions for this week:
Week 4 Discussion
COLLAPSE
Applying a Qualitative Research Design to a Research Scenario
Creswell and Creswell (2018) provide an overview of qualitative research designs in Chapter 1 (pages 13–14) and other aspects of qualitative research in Chapter 9. You should particularly focus on the researcher’s role and reflexivity (pages 183–185), data collection procedures (pages 185–189), protocols (pages 189–191), and validity and reliability (pages 199–202). Some of this is summarized in the Qualitative Research Design Concepts table, located in this week’s Learning Resources. The table also describes six common qualitative research designs that Creswell and Creswell merely mention without differentiation. A review of these Learning Resources will prepare you for this week’s Discussion post and successful completion of this week’s Learning Assessment.
Creswell, J. W., & Creswell, J. D. (2018). Research design: Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approach (5th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
To Prepare
• Review this week’s Learning Resources, paying particular attention to the types of qualitative research designs, sampling strategies, and data collection methods.
• Review your Weeks 1 and Week 2 Discussions on a qualitative research problem, purpose, research question, and theoretical/conceptual framework.
• Identify an appropriate and specific qualitative research design, sampling strategy, and data collection method that aligns with your research problem, purpose, research question, and theoretical/conceptual framework.
• Alignment of scenario elements is important. See the Examples of Aligned and Misaligned Scenarios document, which can be downloaded from the Week
4 Learning Resources area of the classroom.
• Discussion posts are pass/fail but have minimum criteria to pass. See the Discussion Rubric ensure you understand the pass/fail criteria.
By Day 3
This week is only about the qualitative scenario. Repost, or build on or refine as needed, your Week 1 and Week 2 Discussion of your qualitative scenario using the following headings and according to the italicized instructions given for each element:
Program of Study: Identify your specific program of study and, if applicable, your concentration area.
Social Problem: Briefly describe the social problem or phenomenon of interest. Typically, this can be done in 3 or fewer sentences.
Qualitative Research Problem: Complete the following sentence: The scholarly community does not know…
Qualitative Research Purpose: Typically, this is a 1-sentence statement addressed by completing the following sentence: The purpose of this qualitative study is…
Qualitative Research Question: Typically, this is a 1-sentence question unless you have more than one research question.
Theory or Conceptual Framework: Identify a specific psychological or sociological theory or specific aspects of a conceptual framework that guides the scenario. Briefly describe how the specific theory or conceptual framework guides your research question and will aid in the interpretation of results.
Areas that need to be completed
Qualitative Research Design: Identify a specific qualitative research design. Do not use broad terms, such as descriptive design, exploratory design, hermeneutics, lived experience, and so on. Briefly describe how the selected design fits your scenario.
Qualitative Sampling Strategy: Be specific.
Qualitative Data Collection Method: Be specific.
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