Massive congratulations to the first winners of the research cup.
Lucy, Hugh, Emma and Emily produced a brilliant piece of research which was written up very well as a scientific study of Psychodynamic theory.
They were investigating for correlations between anal personality traits and parental strictness and came up with some interesting results from their Sixth Form sample.
To win the research cup the students had to plan a study that investigated Freud’s theories of Psychosexual development. They needed to create a null and alternate hypothesis to test and decide how they were going to test it.
Their hypotheses were:
- There is no relationship between parental strictness and level of anal retention.
- Those with parents who are strict are more anally retention.
They developed their own questionnaires to collect self report data from their participants and made good use of new technologies (googledocs and emails) to distribute the questionnaires and collect the data.
They analysed their data using a Spearman’s rank correlation test and found a correlation between strictness and anal retentive behaviour to be 0.161. The is a weak correlation and they concluded that it was not strong enough to be significant (crit P<0.10 = 0.265).
They concluded that there is no significant correlation between parental strictness and anal retentive behaviour and accepted their Null hypothesis.
Congratulations to the winners!
