Research Questions

Research Questions

Question 1

What causes some children to be bullies?

Research Question

“Domestic violence causes children to be bullies.”

Variables, their measurement and definition

Age, (Scale/Ratio variable), Indicates the age of the participant

Gender, (Nominal), Indicates the gender of the participants

Beaten_freq, (Scale/Ratio variable), It will represent the frequency of the child being beaten up at home.

Dom_Vio, (Scale/Ratio variable), It will indicate the number of domestic violence occurring in the home.

Par_Fht, (Ordinal variable with 5 levels), It will indicate the frequency of parents fighting among themselves, divided on five levels, with 1 being “fighting daily”, 2 = “Fighting thrice a week”, 3 = “fighting weekly”, 4 = “fighting occasionally” and 5 = “never fight”.

Question 2

What are the effects of abortion on Mental Health?

Research Question

“Post-abortion increases depression in women.”

Variables, their measurement and definition

Age, (Scale/Ratio), indicates the age of the participant.

Guilt, (Ordinal variable), indicates of the level of guilt a women feels in having an abortion. It will have three levels, 1 = “very guilty”, 2 = “little guilty”, 3 = “not guilty”

Murder, (Ordinal varibable), indicates the perception of abortion as murder. It will have three levels, 1= “Abortion was murder”, 2 = “Abortion was an unavoidable murder”, 3 =”Abortion was not murder”.

Question 3

Why is it important to introduce sexual education to teenagers?

Research Question

“Sexual education to teenagers reduces teenage pregnancies”

Variables, their measurement and definition

Age. (scale/ratio), Indicates the age of the teenager

Gender, (Nominal), indicate the gender of the participants.

Se_rel, (nominal), indicates if the participant is in a sexual relationship, by stating “yes” or “no”.

Sfe_se, (nominal), Use of safe sex methods. It will be indicated by “yes” or “no”

Awr_SeEdu, Awareness of sexual education. It will be indicated by a 3 level likert scale indicating the awareness. 1= “Fully awareness of sexual education”, 2 = “partly aware of sexual education” , 3= “unaware ...