Research suggests that expressive writing—writing about deeply personal, stressful experiences—can improve physical and psychological well-being. A team of health psychologists wants to conduct a study using online self-report journals where university students describe a highly stressful academic or personal event and report their subsequent daily anxiety levels over a two-week period.
Outline how you would address two ethical considerations in the design of this study.
276 exam-style questions on OCR A Level Psychology Debates, covering Nature/nurture, Freewill/determinism, Reductionism/holism, Individual/situational explanations, Usefulness of research, Ethical considerations, Conducting socially sensitive research, and Psychology as a science. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.