Psychology Research Methods Assignment

Running head: RESEARCH METHODS IN PSYCHOLOGY
RESEARCH METHODS IN PSYCHOLOGY
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Name of the university:
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RESEARCH METHODS IN PSYCHOLOGY2
Problem statement:
In the recent era, school absentees are identified as one of the crucial problems that are
associated with a range of risk behaviours. Ch, Abdullah and Khatoon (2017), suggested that in
the majority of the cases, homelessness, poverty, absence from the specific lessons, emotional
distress, emotional distress of the children are often the reason behind the frequent school
absents which can be considered as the risk factors. On the other hand, high retention rate,
parental employment, poor parental dynamics, poor quality of teachers are also severe risk
factors behind school absentees. It is usually observed that children of the 13 to 21 years tend to
involve in school absentees due to peer influence (Gubbels, van der Put & Assink, 2019). The
consequence of this school absentees includes antisocial, delinquent poor, physical neglect,
sexual abuse.
The literature gap:
The literature gap is that very limited studies are conducted on the perspective of
teenagers. While a majority of the study was conducted on the teenagers from the perspective of
researchers or another perspective, limited research was conducted from the perspective of the
teenagers to gain an understanding of the reason of school absentees. Consequently, the
researchers failed to capture the values and beliefs of the teenagers and the emotional distress
they subjected to (Keegan & Gable, 2016).
The target group of the problem:
While the target group of the problem is the adolescents, it can affect society.