Appearance-Related Cyberbullying: A Qualitative Study

Briefly compare the use of the research design employed in the study you selected to that of another qualitative design.

Phenomenological designs are focused on understanding the lived experiences of a phenomenon by an individual or more than one individual (Sherperis, Young, & Daniels, 2010). The qualitative study conducted by Berne, Frisén, and Kling (2014), seeks to understand 15-year-old adolescents’ lived experiences of appearance-related cyberbullying. This research design is different from that of an ethnography design because the researchers are not trying to understand the culture of the group, rather they are trying to understand the adolescents’ perspectives about a phenomenon (Sheperis, Young, & Daniels, 2010). In addition, this design is different from an ethnography design because the researchers are not immersing themselves into the culture that is being studied or using observation (Sheperis, Young, Daniels, 2010). Instead, the researchers are using focus-groups to gather the adolescents’ information. Summarize how the sampling, data collection, and data analysis procedures worked together to address the study's …show more content…
The sampling, data collection and data analysis procedures helped to answer the researchers questions about characteristics of adolescents that are involved in appearance-related cyberbullying, ways and why they are cyberbullied about their appearances, and effects that are associated with appearance-related cyberbullying (Berne, Frisén, & Kling,2014). The findings that appearance-related cyberbullying may be gendered and how the Internet may impact girls’ body esteem through appearance-related negative comments makes sense, describes the information received, and accurately represents the study at hand helping to build the study’s trustworthiness (Sheperis, Young, & Daniels,