OCR GCSE Psychology · J203
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A method in which participants provide information about their own thoughts, feelings or behaviour, for example through a questionnaire.
Revise: Heaven (1996): Personality, Self-Esteem and DelinquencyThe research was a longitudinal study using self-report questionnaires. Longitudinal research collects information from the same participants on more than one occasion. It was also correlational: Heaven measured variables and analysed relationships between them, rather than manipulating personality in an experiment.
- Revise: Tandoc et al. (2015): Facebook Use, Envy and Depression