Research project 1

Interviewing Friends about Dating

Use the structured interview format presented on the data sheet to interview two friends – one male and one female – about the reasons they date. Record each subject’s answers on the data sheet and then answer the questions.

DATA SHEET

Questions Subject 1 Subject 2

Age____ Sex___ Age_____Sex____

1. What is the most you go on a date?

2. What are two other reasons you date?

3.How do you decide

whom to date?

4. What do you do if you

are interested in

someone you

would like to date?

Questions

1. What was the male's most important reason for dating? How did that differ from his other reasons for dating?

2. What was the female's most important reason for dating? How did that differ from her other reasons for dating?

3. Did the reasons for dating differ for the mate and female you interviewed? Did the way they go about getting dates differ? Did they seem to follow traditional male-female roles, or were they nontraditional? How did their reasons for dating compare to the four functions of dating reported in the text?

Research Project 2 Marcia’s Statuses of Identity

This project examines Marcia's statuses of identities in college students (18 to 20 years old) Interview ten college students (if you are 18 to 20, you may be a subject) and have them identify their current identity status. Then answer the questions that follow.

Subjects:

1. Choose which of the statements here best reflects you currently:

A. "I believe that I have made commitments to my future career and life. A while back, however, I had a rough time deciding what I wanted to do with my life.”

B. "I really don't know what I want to do with ray life, but I am trying to make up my mind about my options. I guess I’m having an identity crisis.”

C. "I know what commitments I am going to make in my life. Seems like I always have known where I'm heading. I can't remember it being very difficult to decide."

D. "I really don't know what I want to do with my life, but Pm not losing any sleep over it. Sometime I'll decide what I want to do, but not right now."

DATA SHEET

Subject: Sex: Age: Statement Choice:

1 F/M 8/19/20 A/B/C/D

2 F/M 18/19/20 A/B/C/D

3 F/M 18/19/20 A/B/C/D

4 F/M 18/19/20 A/B/C/D

5 F/M 18/19/20 A/B/C/D

6 F/M 18/19/20 A/B/C/D

7 F/M 18/19/20 A/B/C/D

8 F/M 18/19/20 A/B/C/D

9 F/M 18/19/20 A/B/C/D

10 F/M 18/19/20 A/B/C/D

Questions

1. How did your 10 subjects break down by identity achievement (A), identity moratorium (B), identity foreclosure (C), and identity diffusion (D)?

2. Do female and male subjects tend to give the same responses?

3. Do you think you would get similar answers if you used 18- to 20-year-old subjects who were not enrolled in college? Married young adults? Parents?

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