Survey Reflection

I titled my survey “Dealing with Divorce” which consisted of ten questions. My research topic is divorce and I plan to focus the most on how it affects children and teenagers. Five out of the ten questions were multiple choice as the others required my surveyors to type out responses. The multiple choice questions were very basic for example question #9 asked, “Do you plan on getting married?” and the choices were “Yes”, “No”, and “Other” which offered a space to comment. I focused on surveying people who were between the ages of 15 and 25 and out of the ten people who completed my survey I had one participant the age of 17, two were 18, three were 19, one was 20, two were 22, and one was 25. If I were to re-do my survey I think I would have tried harder to find others who were younger so I could get some opinions of younger individuals as well. Also, if I were to re-do my survey I would have changed some of the questions in order to make more of them multiple choice instead of requiring my participants to respond with such great detail and personal feelings. However, I was very pleased when analyzing my results to know that the individuals that chose to participate in my survey answered the response questions to the best of their ability with great detail that really gave me an insight on their opinions of divorce. I have posted two questions and answers of my survey in my screen captures and I found it some what astonishing to find out 90% of the people I surveyed know five or more people who have gone through a divorce; keeping in mind the people I surveyed are only between the ages of 17 and 25. Also, when asked the question of “How greatly does divorce worry or effect your life on a scale from 1 to 5 (5 being the worst)” the average answer was 3. To me, that means the majority of these young adults I have surveyed and only one being married have some worry or effect on their lives regarding divorce. Overall, I was very proud of my survey results, mainly because it is uncommon for people especially between the ages of 17 and 25 to think divorce is a good thing so their responses were very well answered. I found my survey to be a great way to get others’ opinions regarding my research topic and feel it will really help to open my eyes to not only my own views regarding divorce when it comes to writing my research paper.