The modern shift to remote working has blurred the lines between professional and personal life, leading to an increase in late-night 'doomscrolling'—the act of obsessively scanning social media for negative news. Psychologists suspect this behavior severely disrupts sleep patterns and escalates workplace anxiety. To investigate the subjective experiences of remote employees, researchers plan to conduct a self-report study using daily digital sleep diaries and anxiety questionnaires.
A team of psychologists is designing this self-report study to investigate the relationship between doomscrolling habits and sleep disruption in remote workers.
Outline how the researchers could use a self-selected (volunteer) sampling technique to obtain the participants for this study.
644 exam-style questions on OCR A Level Psychology Research methods and techniques. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.