School stuff/ IRB HELP ME PLEASE!!!

Sep 04, 2007 09:18

I am in trouble. My senior seminar class is KILLING ME! I have no time for ANYTHING!! Due tomrrow is my research review summary along with my request to the review board. AHHHHHHH. I have been working on it all weekend inbetween family visiting, having a miserable cold, and Matt and a pulled out back. Good Lord, what are you trying to do to me!! I totally cannot figure out the research methods/ statistcs used in the correlational study I am doing my study on. FUCK!! How can I figure out if mothers who frequent the internet have the same levels of loneliness as college students who frequent the internet if I can't figure out the math/table that they used. I tried emailing one of my old math teachers to explain it to me, I haven't heard back from him yet. I just emailed him at about 1am last night as the stress from all of this is keeping me from sleeping. I have to have everything turned in tomorrow!! FUCK!! I think I will post the table and info that I have. If anyone can tell me anything about it PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE let me know! I will be forever grateful, and will send your kids or a favorite niece or nephew a set of personalized Pelican Pete books! LOL! no really. Help.....

Data for the present study were gathered
from 166 undergraduate students (47 male and
119 female, mean age 5 19.2 years)

of course my #'s will be different, just trying to supply ya'll with all the info...

Spearman rank correlation coefficients were
run to determine the degree of relationship between
social and emotional loneliness with various
measures of Internet use. All tests were
run with an alpha of 0.05 (see Table 1).
It was found that a large face-to-face network
of friends as measured by the FtF network score
was associated with both lower social loneliness,
rs 5 20.3863, p , 0.0001, and lower emotional
loneliness, rs 5 20.2435, p 5 0.0016. Further, it
was found that high Internet use, defined by the
frequency with which one logs on to the Internet,
was associated with decreased social loneliness,
rs 5 20.2233, p 5 0.0038. On the other
hand, the more one relies on an Internet network
of friends, as measured by the Internet network
score, the greater the level of emotional loneliness,
rs 5 0.1620, p 5 0.0370.
The measure of one’s Internet network of
friends as measured by the Internet network
cumulative score was also significantly associated
with the measure of Internet use, as defined
by the frequency with which one logs
onto the internet to engage in his or her favorite
internet activity, rs 5 0.3623, p , 0.0001.


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