This week 7, I present your feedback from week 6, and build upon it:

Week 6's Feedback: OK, this looks good. I would start looking at how you are going to define

the variables. What instruments are out there that are good for measuring quality of marriages?

How can you most effectively measure Facebook activity?

My Response This Week 7

Instrumentation

The author proposes the following instruments in order to carry out this case study. The

Measuring Dyadic Adjustment (DAS; Spanier, 1976) aimed at gauging the level of satisfaction (quality of

relationship) among our sample population. The DAS is a 2-page, 32 item scale that has a statistical

significance of p < 0.001 when utilized under a t-test to test differences between the sample

means (DAS; Spanier, 1976). In addition to DAS, it will be necessary to measure the presence,

absence and/or level of religiosity of the sample population. To assess this the author proposes

the utilization of the Santa Clara Strength of Religious Faith Questionnaire (Plante & Boccaccini,

1997). Since the main factor is to see the effect Facebook usage might have on the sampled

population, in the absence of a fitting assessment from Mental Measurements Yearbook, could be

the Facebook Usage Scale (Caci et al., 2014) could be used in this study.

Analysis

Since this case study aims to prove/disprove the correlation between Facebook usage and the

quality of marriages, the statistical test selected is the Pearson correlation analysis. The dependent variable

is the effect Facebook usage (measured by the Facebook Usage Scale) could have on the quality of the

relationship (measured by DAS assessment). The independent variable is married people born between

1980 and 2000, who fall under the umbrella of Christianity.

 The discovery of a statistical significant result (< 0.05) between Facebook usage and marital

dissatisfaction would disprove our null hypothesis and therefore prove there is a direct correlation between

Facebook usage and the quality of marital relationship.



 References

Caci, B., Cardaci, M., Tabacchi, M., & Scrima, F. (2014). Personality Variables as Predictors of

Facebook Usage. Psychological Reports, 114(2), 528-539. https://doi.org/

10.2466/21.09.pr0.114k23w6

Plante, T.G., & Boccaccini, M. (1997). The Santa Clara Strength of Religious Faith

Questionnaire. Pastoral Psychology, 45, 375-387. doi: 10.1007/BF02230993

Spanier, G. B. (1976). Measuring dyadic adjustment: New scales for assessing the quality of

marriage and similar dyads. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 38(1), 15–28. https://

doi.org/10.2307/350547