Question

I NEED TO: Write a 100-word paragraph (in your own words) stating whether the study below is correlational or experimental and explaining why you believe it is correlational or experimental. If you believe it is both or neither, explain your thinking with examples from the article/study listed below.

PLEASE READ THE STUDY, IT IS LISTED BELOW TO ANSWER THE ESSAY QUESTION ABOVE:

Facebook’s damaging effects on mental health have been widely reported in a series of studies – but could the social network be making us physically ill, too? Researchers found that people who spent time looking at other people’s Facebook profiles, felt real physical symptoms as sleep problems, weight change and muscle tension. Researchers interviewed 165 Facebook users, and found that people who were inclined to compare themselves to others felt more aware of physical ailments. It’s not that Facebook actually causes the symptoms in other words, but comparing onself to others perceived as ‘better off’ causes increased awareness of symptoms. Dr Bridget Dibb, Senior Lecturer in Health Psychology at the University of Surrey, said, ‘Comparing ourselves to others is not a new concept; however, with the rise of social media it is becoming a part of our everyday lives. ‘An entity like Facebook, with 2.27 billion active monthly users, has never existed before. The long term effect it has on individuals is unknown, but it is clear that comparison with others is associated with perceptions of ill-health.‘Users need to be aware of how they feel when they use sites like Facebook and recognize the dangers of comparisons in this context.’

Answer 1

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The world statistics reveal that about 500 million people are believed to suffer from stress related form (psychological problems which present themselves as physical complaints). To the statistical indications of the need for mental health view point, if we add everyday symptoms of mental health due to social networking site like facebook , the situation becomes even more striking.

In your problem, if i am talking with respect to  statistics, dependence or association is any statistical relationship, whether causal or not, between two random variables or bivariate data. In the broadest sense correlation is any statistical association, though in common usage it most often refers to how close two variables are to having a linear relationship with each other. Familiar examples of dependent phenomena include the correlation between the physical statures of parents and their offspring etc.

Correlations are useful because they can indicate a predictive relationship that can be exploited in practice. For example,

Here we check a mutual relationship or connection between two or more things like Facebook’s damaging effects on mental health. or check the association b/w people who are really aware about their health or not , it will give more significant result.

and for check all these you can use statistical test like chi square test and also use the regression analysis to check the trend

and what its long term effect.