Essays on Operational Definition

Literature on the effect of environmental stress caused by changes in the climate is more relevant today than it has been before, especially in the context of global warming (Beniston 2010). Schulte (2014) and Somero (2010) published articles on environmental stress and climate change respectively. Reading the two articles offers an understanding of how the two variables are interrelated and the effect that they have on living organisms. The manner in which the arguments are constructed presents with various positives and negatives. This critique will highlight the positives and negatives with the help of literature from other scholars. Schulte ( ...

Introduction

In the field of social and psychological research, the development of research tools to measure phenomena by attributing quantitative values to them and developing them into continuous variables is a crucial part of data collection and understanding of the phenomena. The reliability and validity of the measuring instruments thus developed is of utmost importance in establishing the value and capability of the constructs. We all can relate to our personal or friends and peers’ childhood experiences of anxiety as a child. The children are more vulnerable as a result of anxiety situations as they have little or no idea ...

Research variable is the fundamental building blocks of research. It is the basis for a research hypothesis. A research study examines the relationship of a research variable in a particular context. A variable can be defined as anything that takes different values. The same applies to research variables as well. In research, variables are observable characteristic of an event or object. They can take one or more values. The common characteristic of all variable is that they do not have a fixed value. A research variable should have three characteristic features: it should be defined, it should have a ...

Research Question

Are people that attend college more likely to have liberal views on the LGBT community? Conceptual and Operational Definitions There are two variables in the research question. The first, the independent variable, is whether the individual has gone to college or not. College in this case refers to any post-secondary education at a college or university. The operational definition for this research is whether they have completed a two- or four-year college degree. This is a nominal (binary) variable with two answers: yes or no. The dependent variable is the views on the LGBT community. This is defined as ...

The issue I choose to speak about is gender equality in the college campus. This issue was raised due to what appears to be a trend in many college campuses today. In order to understand why this situation exists today, there is an urgent need to identify the reasons why there are less male students applying for acceptance in college campuses, whereas the number of female applicants keep increasing every year. According to the article “To all girls I’ve rejected,” there are more female applicants than male every year, and this tip the balance off in terms of ...

Wing SzeWence, Jampolsky and Alsbury shade light on the lifelong disability that arises from prenatal alcohol exposure in their article titled, Experiences in the Canadian Criminal Justice System for Individuals with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders: Double Jeopardy? According to prior research, FASD is viewed as one of the most vital growth disabilities in Canada considering that it consumes up to five billion dollars of the nation’s budget as each individual suffering from the condition is allocated around twenty-one thousand dollars. Therefore, the researchers undertook to carry out a research on the experience of people in the criminal justice ...