In order to conduct this survey, the sample will consist of 50 participants who will complete a questionnaire that is related to the research topic which is how communication via text messages affects satisfaction in romantic relationships. The participants will be students from Vanier college, because the survey itself will be conducted in the campus during Fall semester in 2016. In previous studies, most of the samples chosen by researchers did not contain equivalent number of females and males. However, in this sample, there will be the same number of men as well as women, because gender differences can highly influence final results of the study. Thus, among volunteers from Vanier college there will be 25 females and 25 males. The students
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More precisely, the sample will be selected from students who will be in Jake’s cafeteria between 12:30 and 3:30 in the afternoon. It should not be ignored that even the students in the Jake’s cafeteria will be filtered according to their relationship status. Since this study observes how texting relates to the relationship satisfaction, adolescents who currently are not in a romantic relationship and who do not possess a cell phone will not be asked to complete a questionnaire. Moreover, this study will observe only the students who are in heterosexual romantic …show more content…
First scale will be The Relationship Assessment Scale created by Hendrick in 1988 (as cited in McGee, 2014, p.410); the second one will be the Kansas Marital Satisfaction Scale created by Schumm, Nichols, Schectman, and Grinsby in 1983 (as cited in McGee, 2014, p.410); and, lastly, Quality of Marriage Index (QMI) created by Norton in 1983 will also be adopted to this study in order to complete the combination of questions related to the relationship satisfaction among students. Even though all three scales will be combined, the survey will be only using them partly. It will include only the most relative and interesting parts of them to construct a questionnaire. Some questions in this survey will include Likert scales such as: “In general, how satisfied are you with your relationship?” and “How well does your partner meet your needs?”. All the questions of the same nature will contain answers from “Poorly” or “Unsatisfied”, to “Extremely well” or “Extremely satisfied”. Using these questions from the The Relationship Assessment Scale, the Kansas Marital Satisfaction Scale and the Quality of Marriage Index guarantees validity and reliability, as they have been tested over and over again by different
More precisely, the sample will be selected from students who will be in Jake’s cafeteria between 12:30 and 3:30 in the afternoon. It should not be ignored that even the students in the Jake’s cafeteria will be filtered according to their relationship status. Since this study observes how texting relates to the relationship satisfaction, adolescents who currently are not in a romantic relationship and who do not possess a cell phone will not be asked to complete a questionnaire. Moreover, this study will observe only the students who are in heterosexual romantic …show more content…
First scale will be The Relationship Assessment Scale created by Hendrick in 1988 (as cited in McGee, 2014, p.410); the second one will be the Kansas Marital Satisfaction Scale created by Schumm, Nichols, Schectman, and Grinsby in 1983 (as cited in McGee, 2014, p.410); and, lastly, Quality of Marriage Index (QMI) created by Norton in 1983 will also be adopted to this study in order to complete the combination of questions related to the relationship satisfaction among students. Even though all three scales will be combined, the survey will be only using them partly. It will include only the most relative and interesting parts of them to construct a questionnaire. Some questions in this survey will include Likert scales such as: “In general, how satisfied are you with your relationship?” and “How well does your partner meet your needs?”. All the questions of the same nature will contain answers from “Poorly” or “Unsatisfied”, to “Extremely well” or “Extremely satisfied”. Using these questions from the The Relationship Assessment Scale, the Kansas Marital Satisfaction Scale and the Quality of Marriage Index guarantees validity and reliability, as they have been tested over and over again by different