Day: January 10, 2020

 

• Literature Review Draft
  Preparation
  In addition to the other helpful links provided in Resources, we recommend you use an organizing tool from the Capella University Library Services and Tools page, such as the Scholarly Research Log, to help you track the theories, methods, and findings of the articles you have read.
  Note: Be sure to post your draft of the literature review in the Unit 4 discussion and incorporate feedback from your instructor and peers before submitting this assignment.
  Instructions
  For this assignment, submit the current draft of your literature review for instructor feedback and grading. Using your literature search question (LSQ), the annotated bibliography, and the abstracted outline to support your review, identify themes that emerge from your analysis of what we know so far about your topic. Use these themes to describe how your research builds on prior knowledge.
  For instance, if your LSQ is What does the literature in psychology tell us about the utility of treating mild depression in adults with a combination of synchronous and asynchronous labyrinth walking and cognitive behavioral therapy? you might discuss literature that covers the themes of exercise and depression, cognitive behavioral therapy and depression, walking meditation and depression, mindfulness and depression, and so on. Do not organize the paper by referencing each article sequentially; your task is to synthesize concepts pertinent to the LSQ from the articles selected for this review.
  Plan to identify articles and research that:
  
  • Describe chosen area of research and provide rationale for choice.
  • Describe significance of chosen topic:
    • Explain and justify the implications of the new knowledge for stakeholders, including community members and those who serve the population.
  • Summarize sources applicable to the history of chosen topic:
    • Discuss historical context and dominant themes in the evolution of the topic; connect common themes and present counteropinions.
    • Consider theory in light of seminal works by theorists such as Urie Bronfenbrenner, Sigmund Freud, B.F. Skinner, Carol Gilligan, Jean Piaget, Erving Goffman, and Clark Moustakas. 
  • Summarize sources applicable to the theoretical background of the chosen topic:
    • Provide information about theoretical underpinnings such as empirical/behavioral or constructivist and humanistic orientations of the literature reviewed.
    • Consider theory in light of seminal works by theorists such as Urie Bronfenbrenner, Sigmund Freud, B.F. Skinner, Carol Gilligan, Jean Piaget, Erving Goffman, and Clark Moustakas.
  • Summarize sources applicable to best practices for engaging in research:
    • Describe data-collection strategies, research procedures, and approaches for conducting and reporting research.
  • Summarize sources that add significance and relevance to the knowledge base of psychology:
    • Indicate how the chosen sources help investigators identify topics that are well understood and other topics that represent gaps in the knowledge base and the need for further study.
    • Create a scenario that illustrates the need for new research.
  • Articulate guidelines of the profession applicable to ethical conduct in research practice:
    • Demonstrate ethical conduct associated with the protection of research subject vulnerabilities such as the need for data privacy.
  • Identify practices and research guidelines that address respect for individual differences and diversity:
    • Address individual variation and diversity within and across groups. For example, when writing about marriage and family therapy, acknowledge research choices that exclude or include subgroups such as gay and lesbian families or families of particular racial, ethnic, or cultural compositions.
  • Adhere to APA style and formatting guidelines, including concise and well-organized writing:
    • Organize paper to enhance the message and supporting points; writing should reflect the quality and expertise expected for academic work.
    • Organize and summarize sources thematically.
  • Your task is to present current considerations important to investigators and to indicate ramifications for stakeholders who rely on the current knowledge base. Use illustrative examples to explain and highlight key concepts. Good reviewers share evidence-based assessments of the current state of knowledge with their audiences.
    This assignment is one component of the integrated project. You are expected to refine this literature review before submitting the final project.
    Additional Requirements
  • Formatting:
    • Organize your assignment as follows:
      • Title page.
      • Chapter headings (should start on new page).
      • Subheadings.
  • Font: New Times Roman, 12 point, double-spaced.
  • APA: Use APA format and style throughout, including citations.
  • Review the assignment scoring guide to ensure that you meet all criteria.
    Note: Your instructor may also use the Writing Feedback Tool to provide feedback on your writing. In the tool, click the linked resources for helpful writing information.
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• Periodically, information will be posted in this space for the good of the class.

 

Statement of Problem, RQ Development, and Significance of Proposed Study

This discussion has three parts. You will be asked to articulate the need for your study, known as the research problem and include a draft of your research question (RQ) as well as the potential significance of the research. As we have discussed, it is the job of the scientific investigator to identify new areas of inquiry and ways to gain new knowledge in these areas. Research questions are used by scientists to frame potential areas of inquiry. 

But before developing a research question, the research problem must be identified and justified. To justify the research question, scientists will consider the implications of the problem for those who have a stake in the results of the investigation. The significance of the findings will be presented to the stakeholders and sponsors of the investigation.

Your task is to consider what you have learned as you reviewed the literature and to identify what must be learned if we are to advance the knowledge base.

Statement of Problem

Summarize the following in one or two short paragraphs:

• What do we know so far about the area of the literature that you reviewed?
• What do you think we need to know to advance the knowledge base?
• How will this new knowledge serve the stakeholders (scientists, care providers, families, patients, institutions) that may in turn be served by implementation of new developments?

Distill your statement of the research problem to one or two sentences that describe what must be learned about the problem.

Refer to the qualitative or quantitative project guide (linked in Resources) for help placing the research problem in the context of your course project. Begin working independently on completion of the template to support your completion of the project.

Research Question (RQ) Development

Identify your research question by differentiating between qualitative and quantitative research questions. Refer to the appropriate qualitative or quantitative project guide (linked in Resources) for tips.

Characteristics of Qualitative Research Questions

• Qualitative research questions ask for description and interpretation of phenomena through the identification of socially constructed themes and categories.
• Qualitative questions address concepts associated with thoughts, feelings, and actions that are not necessarily accessible via empirical methods of measurement.
• Qualitative data take the form of stories, narratives, and observations.
• Qualitative questions identify the target population and phenomena under consideration.
• Qualitative questions do not test empirically measured data.

Characteristics of Quantitative Research Questions

• Quantitative research questions point to empirical methods that will test the hypothesis or hypotheses associated with the question.
• Quantitative research questions have independent and dependent variables.
• Quantitative research questions measure relationships or correlations and/or manipulate natural phenomena through experimentation.
• Quantitative data are presented in numerical categories or quantities.
• Quantitative research questions do not interpret socially constructed themes, narratives, and observations.

Significance of Proposed Study

Summarize the following in one or two short paragraphs:

• Why is this proposed research important to your field of study?
• If it were possible for this study to be conducted, what would it contribute to our understanding?
• How would this research provide theoretical and/or practical knowledge, and why?

Response Guidelines

Offer substantive comments and detailed constructive feedback to one of your peers. Please respond to a new learner for each discussion.

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Draft Chapter 2

Reminder: You will incorporate feedback you receive during this discussion into your Unit 5 assignment submission.

Timing is critical. If you can, post earlythe earlier you post, the more time your instructor and peers will have to provide feedback and give you the opportunity to improve your literature review submission.

• Submit a draft of your literature review for peer and instructor feedback.
• You will receive feedback and suggestions to improve the draft in responses to your post.
• Integrate instructor and peer feedback into a revised literature review before submitting your assignment for grading.

Note: Expect to revise the literature review document multiple times prior to incorporating it into the final project, which you will submit in Unit 10 as Chapter 2 of the Integrative Project. 

Upload your literature review as a Word document. In addition, please copy and paste the text into the message box for your post.

 

Abstracted Outline

Begin your review of the theoretical and research literature to support for your Integrative Project: Chapters 15. Keep in mind that you will demonstrate, via a thorough review of the literature, what represents best practices in a practice or specialization in psychology.

At this point in the development of your literature review, you should be able to identify 1625 sources that support the development of the abstracted outline.

Create and post an abstracted outline of your Chapter 2 Literature Review for your Integrative Project. You should present one or two sentences for each main heading and subheading, explaining the key points to be covered under each section.

Format example:

Topic LSQ

Chapter 2

Main heading section 1 (one- or two-sentence description)

• Subheading 1-1 (one-sentence description)
  • Article 1 (APA reference citation)
  • Article 2 (APA reference citation)
• Subheading 2-1 (one-sentence description)
  • Article 3 (APA reference citation)
  • Article 4 (APA reference citation)
  • Article 5 (APA reference citation)

Main heading section 2 (one- or two-sentence description)

• Subheading 1-2 (one-sentence description)
  • Article 6 (APA reference citation)
  • Article 7 (APA reference citation)

Note: The number of main sections and subsections will depend on your topic and the quantity and quality of your literature search results.

This material should be cited in APA style and the outline should conclude with an APA-formatted reference list.

Attach your discussion as a Word document set in Times New Roman, 12-point, double-spaced type. In addition, please copy and paste the content into the message box for your post.

 

Annotated Bibliography

Preparation

We suggest you use an organizing tool from the Capella University Library: More Services and Tools page, such as RefWorks, to help you keep track of your articles. Refer to the helpful links in Resources.

Terms to know for this post:

• Current research article: This can vary depending on the nature of the LSQ; for most searches you must seek articles published in the last five years. For some topics, this restriction may not applyfor example, if writing about psychoanalysis, you will want to cite Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, who published beginning in the late 19th century until his death in 1940. In cases where the restriction does not apply, provide a rationale for choosing an older article.
• Purpose: The purpose of a research proposal is to propose strategies for answering the research question (RQ). The purpose of a theoretical discussion is to outline the nature of a scientific dilemma and consider premises for opposing views as well as to offer possible opinions and solutions to the problem.
• Qualitative investigation: This non-empirical type of inquiry seeks socially constructed descriptions of abstract phenomena.
• Quantitative investigation: Quantitative investigations are empirical inquiries that seek answers to research questions that can be presented in numerical form.
• Research problem: This is also referred to as the gap in the literature. Identify for each article the area of the literature that the scientists publishing their research have identified as needing further exploration. The problem refers to the challenges that the scientific community has in identifying and developing strategies for the discovery of new knowledge.
• Research question: Presented in the form of a question, it represents the foundational inquiry of the article as well as the goal of the research project that has been described in the journal article. The research question drives the investigation and signals whether the project is qualitative or quantitative. Your RQ is not the same as your LSQ.
• Seminal article: This is an article or text that has shaped the history of the field. An example in psychology is Milgram’s 1965 “Some Conditions of Obedience and Disobedience to Authority,” published in Human Relations, which caused research on obedience to develop in new directions and challenged long-held belief systems.

Instructions

Develop and post an annotated bibliography that identifies sources that will help you to answer your literature search question (LSQ).

For this discussion:

• Put your proposed LSQ in interrogative form at the top of the annotated bibliography.
• Include a minimum of 10 articles in your annotated bibliography, eight of which should be other than those identified in your Unit 1 discussion post.
  • To choose these articles, it is likely that you will have to read many more than 10 articles. An annotated bibliography involves culling the articles that do not support your LSQ.
  • Be sure to select articles published within five years that reflect current knowledge of the topic. For some topics, the use of articles older than five years is appropriateinclude a one-sentence rationale for using an older article if this is the case.
  • For easy reference, be sure to number each entry in the annotated bibliography. 
• Upload your discussion post as a Word document set in 12-point Times New Roman, with all sources cited in current APA style and format. In addition, please copy and paste the document content into the message box for your post submission.

Research Articles

For each research journal article selected, discuss how it relates to your LSQ:

• Identify the authors research question.
• Identify the research problem that the authors hope to resolve.
• Identify the methods used by the authors to investigate the research question.
• Identify the results the researchers noted in the discussion of the reported research.
• Explain why you chose the article and how it will help to answer the LSQ.
• Identify whether the article is chosen for its usefulness in terms of theory of method, theory of content, or for both content and method.

Theoretical Articles

For each theoretical journal article selected discuss how it relates to your LSQ:

• Identify the contentions of the authorsthe research question, if applicable.
• Identify the problem under discussion and methods used for developing their claims, premises, and suppositions.
• Explain why you believe that this article will help to answer the LSQ.
• Identify whether the article is chosen for its utility in terms of theory of method, theory of content, or for both content and method.

Example

Binnewies, C., Sonnentag, S., & Mojza, E. J. (2009). Feeling recovered and thinking about the good sides of ones work. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 14(3), 243256.

Since work conditions are a critical part of employee satisfaction, fostering positive thoughts and feelings can support an individuals sense of self. In this study, reflecting positively on work increased positive behaviors in employees and their sense of organizational citizenship (p. 243). It was also found that reflecting on work in a positive manner, such as in a relaxed state, had a healthy positive outcome, allowing employees to manage their stress more effectively. This study is an example of Banduras notion of self-efficacy and how our positive physiological and mental states can influence our own self-efficacy. This article relates to my proposed Integrated Project in terms of both methodology and content.

Response Guidelines

Offer substantive comments and detailed constructive feedback to one peer. What additional topics and subtopics in the literature might he or she consider?

Please respond to a different learner for each discussion.

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