Self Report Write Up

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Self Report Write Up

Self Report Write Up

Section 1

Aim

To investigate which gender is more helpful between the ages of 16 and 17.

Section 2

The questionnaire contained ten questions. Within the questions I included the following types of questions:

  1. Three forced questions. For example; are you male or female?
  2. Three open questions. For example; someone asks you for help on their very difficult homework. What do you do?
  3. Two closed questions. For example; someone has just fallen over in front of you. Do you:
  1. Laugh? b) Laugh & help them up? c) Help them up or, d) nothing.
  1. Two questions including the Likert scale. For example; if you saw someone struggling with their bags how inclined would you feel to help them? (1being very much so and 5 being not at all).

Each question apart from the first two were given a score between zero and five. The first two questions were missed out from the scoring as they were asked purely so that the data could be organised. The score of zero which was given to the questions meant that the persons answer was the least helpful and the score of five represents the fact the participants answer displayed the most helpfulness. The higher the score the participant achieved on their overall questionnaire means the more helpful the participant is.

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Section 3

My sample was chosen through opportunity sampling it was from sixth form students at Brentwood School between the ages 16 and 17. Five girls and five boys chosen through opportunity sampling were given the questionnaire. The questionnaire took part in a quiet corner of a classroom. I asked the questions and the participants told me their answers verbally whilst I wrote their answers down on a sheet of paper. The questionnaire took part during the school week in lesson time.  The target population for the questionnaire is students between the ages of 16 and 17.

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