Well, there’s definitely no shortage in trying to choose a research design. Some are much easier to understand than others.
With my proposal, I feel like I’m having a hard time pinpointing and deciding on certain things like who and how I would sample and research designs too. I think I am looking towards more qualitative methods and designs than quantitative. I think finding the deeper details of SIS and sobriety would lead me to be able to make a generalization about the people who do use SIS. I think you do have to be careful when you decide on your research design because if you don’t have the right plan before starting, then you may not get the data that you you were hoping to get.
I think I will be working along the lines of a descriptive research design. A lot of the methods I plan to use for my proposal are self-surveys type and just having people in their natural settings so some observations. I also think a descriptive research design will be beneficial because it will help explain a phenomena: whether use of SISs increase the rates of successful sobriety from a rehabilitation facility. I’m looking at what happens, not how, when or why things happened the way they did.
Justyna Wolek 