Demographic Study Essay

Since the study was conducted in Texas of United States, the demographic distribution here may be different from other part or State of the country. Moreover, for the special locate of Texas, there are more Mexican immigrants or Mexican Americans, the racial differences may varied from any other state of the country. Furthermore, the participants were selected through convenient sampling instead of random sampling, which may not represent all the middle school students with different cultural and racial diverse in the U. S. Therefore, for future research, it is critical to use random selection of sample and consider the racial differences as another factor to understanding children’s psychosocial development.
However, for some non-racial diversity countries such as some Asian countries, racial differences could be excluded from the study as well although ethnical and cultural diverse could promote our inclusive and comprehensive understanding of humanity across the world (Arnett, 2008). As this studies is ideally conducted without real data collection and analysis, and the real participants with different socio-demographic information may …show more content…
Examining if there was difference of psychosocial health between gender and children with and without parental-child separation was the main concern for this study. For future research, all other potential factors included cultural, ethnical, teacher and school related need to be included with longitudinal and cross-sectional study in order to have a better understanding of children’s healthy development. Moreover, mixed methods could be also adopted in future research since children’s development is a long-term process and qualitative part of the research could provide more detailed information to understand children’s development and