Longitudinal Drugs Attitude

Created by Kayla Whitelock, Dr. Martin Shapiro, and Dr. Connie Jones

Overview

• A longitudinal research design looks at how behaviors, attitudes, and practices change over time. This can involve assessing the same research participants or a sample of the population over time. 

• This experiment will take a sample of the population each semester for five years to look at changes or consistency in college student's perception of recreational drug use and the potential harm of taking recreational drugs. 

• Participants in this experiment will take an anonymous survey about their personal experience with recreational drugs and their perception of their potential for addiction and harm to the individual and society. 

• Although this is a longitudinal study, there are still questions that could be investigated from the data set along the way. 

• The data will be made available for download and analysis and for creating graphs and figures. 

Instructions

1. Link to this anonymous survey: https://fresnostate.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3qvPMHr7hF0DcLs 

2. After taking the survey, create a hypothesis about possible results and how measurements might change over time. 

3. Download the Excel spreadsheet and create a graph that shows whether your hypothesis was supported or not supported.

Data and Survey

• Do not download the pdf of the survey or the spreadsheet of data until taking the survey first.

• The data sheet information guide can help navigate the spreadsheet. 

• The survey also contains the 10-item personality inventory (TIPI). An article about the TIPI by Gosling et al. (2003) is also available.  Information about scoring TIPI can be found at this link.  

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