Summary Child practical Edexcel

Child practical:


 Aim:
- To investigate if there is a relationship between childhood
attachments and adult relationships
 Procedure:
- Opportunity sampling
- 5 participants (adults) were interviewed using a structured
interview—> (2 females, 3 males)
- Analysed closed question responses to get a score for
attachment & adult relationships
- Content analysis of open questions to add to the scores
- Used the same set of questions for each participant
- Scoring works by giving a score of 5 meaning that responses
allude to a positive relationship and 0 meaning the responses
allude to negative relationships
 Results:

Participant number Attachment score Adult relationship
score
1 4 3
2 2 2
3 3 4
4 0 4
5 5 4

- Mean: attachment= 2.8, adult relationship= 3.4
- Median: attachment= 3, adult relationship= 4
- Mode: attachment= n/a, adult relationship= 4
 Inferential tests:
- Spearman’s rho (ordinal data)

Participa Score on Rank Score on Rank Differen D2
nt attachme adult ce in
number nt relationshi ranks
ps
1 4 4 3 2 2 4
2 2 2 2 1 1 1
3 3 3 4 4 -1 1
4 0 1 4 4 -3 9
5 5 5 4 4 1 1

- Significance of data:
 1- 6∑d2/n(n2-1)
 1- 6(16)/5(25-1)=0.2