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RESEARCH METHOD INHEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE

PART BCritical evaluation of Quantitative Research article“Social anxiety and heavy situational drinking: Coping and conformity motives as multiple mediators”. Terlecki, M. A, and Buckner J. DONE QUANTITATIVERESEARCH ARTICLEColumn 1 Description of the researchColumn 2Your assessment of Strengths and weaknesses (Using academic references).1.Research design.Cross sectional researchdesign. To determine the issue of socialanxiety and heavy situationaldrinking the cross sectionalresearch design will be used.Detailed information can begathered with the use ofresearch approach (Revelle,2017). It is one of crucial toolthat provides the opportunity tohave the use of bothquantitative and qualitative datato gain detailed information. Strength: The strength of cross sectionalsurveys is as quick, costeffective and easy. Under thisstandard and validatesquestionnaire will be used. Weakness:Hence, the weakness is that it isdifficult to assess the cause andeffect relationship and cannotable to assess changes overtime.2.Aims/Objectives ofthe research.Aim- To determine the impact ofheavy alcohol use amongundergraduates remains aThis study is needs to beconducted as it is helpful interms to providing the detailedanalysis of potential unique

serious public healthconcern. Objectives- To evaluate socialanxiety at greater riskfor alcohol usedisorder. To determine themotivation factorsrelated to drinking inhigh risk situations. situation of heavy drinkingamong the social anxiousdrinkers (Merriam and Grenier,2019). The aim and objectivemust be selected so that allthings can be done in effectivemode. The one particular aimhelps to achieve the things inmore proficient mode. 3.Sampling method.How wereparticipantsselected?Sample random techniques have been used with help of undergraduate participants from the department of psychology. It was a researchparticipant’s pool of psychology undergraduates at one US university, in 2011.It is technique under which theselected group of populationwill be probably selected fromall members in study group. Theone of the main advantage ofsimple random sampling isrepresentatives of population.This method lacks the use ofavailable knowledge concerningthe population (Meng, Tan andChen, 2017). On the other hand,one of the greater advantage ofsimple random samplingmethod is to have minimumknowledge of the study groupof population in advance.Furthermore, the disadvantageof simple random samplingmethod is that it cannot beemployed in which the units ofpopulation are heterogeneous innature. 4.Appropriatepopulation used?In order to carry out thedepth implication about theterm social anxiety andheavy drinking situation thenumber of sample will beused as 664 who areparticipant’s pool ofpsychology undergraduatesat one US university, in 2011The population will be helpfulto undertake observation so thattheir views and perspective canbe known.

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