Video Game Violence Use Among ‘‘Vulnerable’’ Populations
ANSWER THES QUESTIONS FROM ATTACHED ARTICLE
1) What VARIABLES are being examined in this research? Briefly describe each of the variables.
2) What is the authors’ THEORY about how these variables are related to each other? Is the research correlational or is one variable believed to be the “causal” variable? Does the other variable represent the “outcome’? 3) What has previous research demonstrated about the relationship between these—or similar—variables? [Briefly summarize this info.]
4) What is/are the authors’ SPECIFIC hypothesis/hypotheses (prediction of results)? Please include all of them.
5) Who are the participants in the study? Please provide demographic information if it is available.
6) How were each of the variables measured? What were the instruments (measurements) used?
7) In general, what are the results of the study? For example, is there a relationship between the variables? Is that relationship stronger or weaker for some of the participants? Are the results statistically significant? Do NOT try to describe statistical procedures or calculations.
8) Do the results support the hypotheses? Was this—or any other aspect of the findings—unexpected?
9) What is/are the authors’ major conclusions(s) based on the results? Why do they believe they received those results?
10) What are the strengths of this research? (Do not use 1st person.)
11) What are the limitations of this research? What kind of follow-up studies could be conducted to address these limitations? (Do not use 1st person.)
12) How might these research findings be useful, and benefit people in a “real world” context?
