Question

Please assist with writing a 100 word essay that explains whether the research study listed below is considered correlational or experimental or both and explain why you believe it is correlational or experimental. Remember this is the subject Psych-Statistics.

PLEASE READ THE RESEARCH STUDY BELOW , TO ANSWER THE 100 WORD ESSAY QUESTION ABOVE:

It’s become common to blame smartphone and tablet addiction for poor mental health in young people – but scientists say there’s little truth behind the idea. Oxford University researchers found that factors such as wearing glasses or regularly eating potatoes had about the same impact on teenage well being as screen time. The researchers found that prolonged screen time had a contribution of just 0.4% to an adolescent’s overall well being. Factors such as smoking cannabis or being bullied were much worse for mental health, with cannabis use being 2.7 times worse, and being bullied 4.3 times worse. Other factors such as eating breakfast were much more important than screen time, the researchers found.

Professor Andrew Przybylski of the University of Oxford said, ‘Our findings demonstrate that screen use itself has at most a tiny association with youth mental health. ‘The 0.4 per cent contribution of screen use on young people’s mental health needs to be put in context for parents and policymakers. ‘Within the same data set, we were able to demonstrate that including potatoes in your diet showed a similar association with adolescent well being. ‘Wearing corrective lenses had an even worse association.’

Answer 1

In the given study, we are isolating different independent variables, like screen time, cannabis use, being bullied and potatoes in diet, in order to study their impact on mental well-being. The different degrees of effect of the independent variables on mental well-being are studied above. This is an experimental research as we are establishing an effect and its different possible causes. It is different from a correlation research where we study the correlation between different variables and look for a relationship between them.