Traditional Family – Christian Marriage Struggles – Total of 3 pages (combine all 5 journals)
Instructions: Please fill out each field as best you can. The text in Green provides examples, and should be deleted when you are filling your your worksheet. After you complete this table, use the information to write your 2-3 page Conceptual Narrative for your SSSR.
Combine 5 articles/Journal and answer each question. Please keep every question in your paper.
| 1. Describe the topic or issue you are interested in studying. I am interested in studying Traditional Family – Christian Marriage Struggles |
2. What specific parts of area of the topic are you interested in examining? (hint: this may involve naming the variables you might be interested in studying) I am interested in: FOR EXAMPLE …(a) messages parents communicate to their kids, (b) do some parents avoid talking to their kids about race, (c) do moms talk to their kids about race more than fathers, (e) does the race of the parent(s) make a difference in how they talk about this? |
3. What do you know about the magnitude or severity of the problem underlying your topic? (hint: find at least 2 scholarly articles that describe the problem in terms of how it impacts the population or how it is related to negative outcomes) Schools in the U.S. continue to be racially stratified, resulting in racial disparities in among children of various ages (Warikoo et al., 2016). Black, Latino, and Asian students have reported an increase in racially motivated incidents at schools in recent years (Pew Research Center, 2021). Efforts to reduce racial bias may be more effective in childhood than in adulthood (Gonzales, Steele, and Baron, 2016). |
| 4. Based on #2 and #3, list a few possible questions about your specific topic and the problem you are trying to address or learn more about (hint: ask what, who, when, where, why, how?) What do parents say to their kids about racism in schools? How do Asian parents talk to their kids about race and racism? Is there a difference in the way White parents talk to their White children about race compared to Black parents of Black children? How do parents communicate non-verbal messages about race and racism to their children? |
5. Choose one to be your main question (hint: how or why questions tend to be best) How do parents communicate non-verbal messages about race and racism to their children? |
6. Refine your question from #5 and make it as clear and specific as possible (hint: specific population, specific variables or constructs of interest) How do Black and Latino parents communicate non-verbal messages about race and racism to their preschool-aged children? |
| 7. Does your question explore differences between two or more groups? If NO, continue to #8. If YES, are you proposing an intervention or naturally occurring differences? Describe below. Maybe. I may propose a secondary question that compares differences between how Black and Latino parents communicate non-verbal messages about race/racism to their preschoolers. |
8. Does your question explore how two or more variables are related? If NO, continue to #9. If YES, what is the relationship you are exploring (e.g., associations, predictive) I’m not sure. I’m exploring parenting behaviors (nonverbal communications about race and racism), but I’m not sure it’s related to another variable. I’m not interested in examining how it predicts any child outcomes, so maybe the answer to this question is no. |
9. Does your question explore the how a group of people experience a particular phenomenon or condition? If NO, continue to #10. If YES, what dimensions or aspects of the phenomenon’s or condition’s experience are you interested in learning more about? Possibly. If I were examining how parents experience talking to their kids about racism, then this could be a yes. But, I’m not sure that the way I’m defining non-verbal communication is an experience. I think it’s more of a set of behaviors. |
| 10. Does your question aim to describe a set of characteristics about a particular phenomenon or a particular population? If NO, continue to #11. If YES, describe below. No. |
11. Use your responses to #7-10, to further refine your research question. OK, I think I want to change my question so that it reads: What verbal and nonverbal messages do Black and Latino parents transmit to their preschool children about race and racism? |
Notes: Include any notes that you want to capture as you start planning your SSSR. You may notice that there are areas of your topic that you’re not quite sure about or where the published findings are mixed/contradictory. These “gaps” can be starting points for your SSSR. |
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