PNGMK wrote:The first question should be the children's age....
Am I missing something here?Daddies, if you are a father with child(ren) between 0 to 18 months of age and reside in Singapore, you are invited to participate in this study
Wow I appreciate your view on this, thanks! I agree that there are limitations to this study. However, there are scientific reasons behind the questions chosen and these are empirical psychometric measurements. Of course, there are many reasons why a person can be depressed, but in a research, it's not necessarily about cause and effect. That's where data analysis comes inx9200 wrote:One of the better surveys posted on this board inclusive of all necessary elements, giving a proper background etc., but as we have this common habit of criticizing everything and specifically surveys, let me say this: IMHO there are at least two overlooked factors with significant impact on the results.
1) You made an assumption the father residing in Singapore lives with his family (including the child).
This is very often not the case, particularly true for very young children. The wife often leaves Singapore to deliver in her home country and stays there for a number of months. The father stays in SG and works.
2) You didn't provide any solid way of determining the father's emotional state as dependant on a variety of factors not associated with the fatherhood, For example, what if his mother just died? What if he has a cancer? What if he is about to be fired? What if he just lost heaps of money in the casino? The questions on work stress and depression episodes in the past do not really address it IMHO and all the emotions you ask about may be associated with the other factors and not necessarily with being a parent. Further to this, there could be some synergistics effects associated with the multiple factors, or the root cause of the emotions can be wrongly interpreted (I am not stressed because of being a father but because my family has not enough money).
Yes I am an idiot as I did the whole form and then hit that mandatory question....sundaymorningstaple wrote:PNGMK wrote:The first question should be the children's age....Am I missing something here?Daddies, if you are a father with child(ren) between 0 to 18 months of age and reside in Singapore, you are invited to participate in this study
Yeah one limitation about Google Form is that you can't edit the font format to make things easier to read. Thanks anyway!PNGMK wrote:Yes I am an idiot as I did the whole form and then hit that mandatory question....sundaymorningstaple wrote:PNGMK wrote:The first question should be the children's age....Am I missing something here?Daddies, if you are a father with child(ren) between 0 to 18 months of age and reside in Singapore, you are invited to participate in this study
brodvitlokk wrote:Wow I appreciate your view on this, thanks! I agree that there are limitations to this study. However, there are scientific reasons behind the questions chosen and these are empirical psychometric measurements. Of course, there are many reasons why a person can be depressed, but in a research, it's not necessarily about cause and effect. That's where data analysis comes in![]()
So what are the scientific reasons?
As for (1), this study examines how fathers in Singapore feel and think after having a child. Although the main participant group would be Singaporeans, the inclusion of expats can also be helpful.
From your introduction I actually though, it targeted the expats, if not, then not so bad.
Afterall, we are all in the same country and we should care for one another. Like you said, there may not be many expats who live with their family while working overseas. But oh well, if you don't try asking, you'll never know. There may not be many, but it doesn't mean there isn't any.By the way, it doesn't matter if the child isn't staying with the dad.
Why this doesn't matter? You see, I can understand you only want to determine whether a male holding a biological position of a father needs some help, similarly to, whether the State should support breast feeding mothers with whatever problems they face, but if this is the case, than this surveys has a lot of redundancy. The whole sections seems to focus on the emotions resulting from being the father including physical aspects. These are surely dependant on where the father lives.
Hope this is helpful and thank you all for being so responsive! Do help to spread around as I'm not allowed to spam in the forum. Your kind gesture makes a difference!
I appreciate your thoughts given onto this survey. The research is still in process and to prevent biases, if you would like to, I can provide you with more information including published literature privately regarding your queries above. Feel free to let me know; same goes for anyone who would like to know about it.x9200 wrote:brodvitlokk wrote:Wow I appreciate your view on this, thanks! I agree that there are limitations to this study. However, there are scientific reasons behind the questions chosen and these are empirical psychometric measurements. Of course, there are many reasons why a person can be depressed, but in a research, it's not necessarily about cause and effect. That's where data analysis comes in![]()
So what are the scientific reasons?
As for (1), this study examines how fathers in Singapore feel and think after having a child. Although the main participant group would be Singaporeans, the inclusion of expats can also be helpful.
From your introduction I actually though, it targeted the expats, if not, then not so bad.
Afterall, we are all in the same country and we should care for one another. Like you said, there may not be many expats who live with their family while working overseas. But oh well, if you don't try asking, you'll never know. There may not be many, but it doesn't mean there isn't any.By the way, it doesn't matter if the child isn't staying with the dad.
Why this doesn't matter? You see, I can understand you only want to determine whether a male holding a biological position of a father needs some help, similarly to, whether the State should support breast feeding mothers with whatever problems they face, but if this is the case, than this surveys has a lot of redundancy. The whole sections seems to focus on the emotions resulting from being the father including physical aspects. These are surely dependant on where the father lives.
Hope this is helpful and thank you all for being so responsive! Do help to spread around as I'm not allowed to spam in the forum. Your kind gesture makes a difference!
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