Assignment Task:

Task:

The major assignment for HPS301/781 casts you into the role of both Research Psychologist and participant. You will be required to help collect and analyse some data for a research study, and to write a report based on your findings. You will also have the opportunity to be a participant and complete the survey yourself (we plan to run the survey in weeks 2 and 3) and also to recruit any friends or family to complete the brief survey. Please note that participation is voluntary and anonymous. In weeks 2-3 we will provide a link in a News post to the Plain Language Statement and the survey. After a couple of weeks of data collection we will upload it onto this site.

The assignment must be presented as a formal laboratory report (see example lab report as a guide) and should contain an abstract, introduction, method, results, discussion, and reference sections. Given that this is a Research Methods unit, the assessment of your report will focus primarily on the results and discussion sections and this is reflected in the weighting of marks.

Thus, the primary aims of this assignment are to:

1. Be involved in actual data collection/recruitment (a taste of 4th year) and understand the participant experience

2. Develop your skills in using appropriate statistical techniques to test a specific research question,

3. Broaden your understanding of research designs,

4. Develop your report writing skills; particularly the ability to report statistical results, the ability to interpret statistical results in the context of past research, and to integrate previous work into a structured argument.

The data for this laboratory report will be gathered in the first two weeks of Trimester 1, 2021 and experimenters were Deakin University School of Psychology staff. Potential participants in the study will be you, the HPS301/HPS781 Trimester 1 2021 students, any family and friends you manage to recruit, and some other students from undergraduate Psychology units. Participants are invited to complete an online questionnaire relating to their own personality traits,  psychological distress, and general demographic questions (gender, age, student status). Students are given the opportunity to invite friends and family to complete the same questionnaire. The survey is part of a larger study being conducted by the School of Psychology.

We will provide you with the data set early in the trimester (it is available now - see below), as well as information about the study methods, and specific research questions. 

Your task will be to analyse the data and then write a lab report on the results. Thus, you will need to draw on the skills you have been developing over the course of the trimester. You can consult the Seminar Activity Instructions documents on CloudDeakin for help with analysing the data and interpreting your output. Furthermore, a Blackboard Collaborate session (date to be advised in a News post) will be scheduled closer to the due date for any student queries regarding the assignment.

The main focus of the assessment is on your ability to understand, analyse and interpret the appropriate statistical analyses to test the hypotheses and to report the results correctly. Overall, your ability to write a psychology laboratory report (following APA conventions) as a whole will be assessed. The necessary readings for AT1 can be found in the Lab Report section of the HPS301/781 CloudDeakin site. There is no need to go beyond these readings, but you are welcome to source additional readings if you want.

Submission

8pm, Friday 30th April 2021, submission via CloudDeakin. 

The assignment is to be submitted as a word document or pdf (.docx OR .pdf), as well as your syntax file (.sps <- or you can copy your syntax into your lab report at the end - call it an Appendix) to the CloudDeakin dropbox for the HPS301/781 site. The dropbox will activate closer to the due date.

Word limit

For this task you must submit a lab report that includes the sections outlined below. The word limit is 2,000 words (excluding your Abstract, Reference list, and any Appendices) with a 10% leeway (his means that no marks can be awarded for work beyond 2,200 words). HPS781 students please note that you have an additional 500 words for your reflection piece (see the last section of these instructions).

Formatting

Please ensure that you submit your work as a typed/word processed document, using a standard font (Times-New Roman) and suitable font size (12 pt) with double-line spacing. Your document should be formatted with 2.5 cm margins on each side. Please make sure that you spell-check AND carefully proofread your work prior to submission. For guidance with APA formatting, see this APA style guide (thankyou Dr. Michael Do), and the example lab report referred to above.

Weighting

This assignment is worth 40% of the total grade for this unit.

Unit Learning Outcomes

The assignment assesses (ULO2), as students will need to autonomously conduct appropriate statistical analyses given specific research questions. As this assignment is a lab report, students will be required to defend conclusions drawn from obtained results (in the Discussion section) (ULO3). Finally, as a lab report, students will be expected to adhere to APA style guidelines (ULO4)

Background to the study

Mental health is a significant problem in Australia and manifests in psychological distress for individuals of differing ages and genders. With symptoms including depression and anxiety, and associations having been found with many negative outcomes, it is important to understand who might be at risk. One area of personality research where the research is mixed on this question is the emerging field of 'dark' and 'light' personalities. At their extremes, these fascinating personality constellations describe archetypal sinners and saints, but most individuals know someone who would be high on narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy, Kantianism, Humanism or faith in humanity. These traits have been shown to have adaptive and maladaptive associations, but not always in expected directions.

In this study, you will build on previous research, examine these questions and try to better understand dark and light personalities.

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