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Setting Up Your Research

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Psych 665/Integrative Capstone: Psychology Past and Present

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May 8, 2017

EXERCISE 1.1 Discovering the Subject of Your Interest or Issue of Inquiry

Age and alcohol addiction is much common today, and this issue is therefore very important to research. The methods that can be used to decrease the usage of alcohol are an introduction of policy interventions such as taxes, warning labels, and conduction of community interventions. Alcohol has adverse effects to human body including hepatitis, jaundice and liver cirrhosis that can lead to death. Alcohol addiction is, therefore, a menace and has to be reduced by acting to globally educate alcohol users on the negative effects of the drug and come up with intervention and rehabilitation programs to help these people. Overcoming alcohol is a program that needs to be taken seriously by the affected individuals. They are then encouraged to undergo the full rehabilitation program in order to recover their full potential that they had been deprived.

EXERCISE 1.2 Understanding the Personal Viewpoint

Understanding the viewpoint is very crucial in the development of a secure program o eliminate alcohol, addiction. Since the author has relatives undergoing this change, he is able to relate to various impacts of alcohol addiction. An individual's social environment, emotional instability as well as peer influence by others can lead to drug abuse or alcoholism. Through the personal experiences of the author's mother and sister suffering from alcohol addiction, it is very much possible to come up with a regulation program to help the family members. When an alcoholic seeks help from medical practitioners and other relevant bodies, they are able to decrease and entirely eradicate addiction. This is a gradual process of counseling and education that must be administered to these individuals. It is also realized that many people who witness how alcoholics behave and the mental deterioration of these characters generally do not get involved in alcoholism. To help someone to overcome an addiction, you would need valid data about their feelings, personal opinions, and intuitions for them to progress.

EXERCISE 1.3 Selecting the Focus of Your Study

The focus on the study of alcohol addiction must be in the influential factors and the effects it has on people's bodies. It is very effective to look at different people since they have different manifestations of alcohol effects. It is therefore recommended to use old individuals who have suffered from addiction and others who have reached adulthood recently. All these groups of people are vital for the study of cause and effect of drug abuse. Alcohol addiction has resulted in spoiling many lives of people since many start when they enter adulthood. It is then seen that legalization of alcohol to individuals who are over 18 years of age are what makes young people get involved in binge drinking since they feel that they had been restricted to do so. We have learned through history that many older people have influenced young people to use alcohol. Some begin drinking alcohols early as eight years of age. With further research on this issue I am hoping that we can begin to save lives by seeing how we can put a stop to a growing issue.

EXERCISE 1.4 Developing Your Interest Statement

In developing an interesting statement, the factors that influence alcohol addiction such as family history, depression and peer pressure have to be thoroughly looked into. By examining the individuals, each one has a story why they started drinking. It is therefore recommended that brain functions and the effects of alcohol addicts' psychological processing be addressed into details. Environmental influence and family history is the key alcohol addiction and therefore needs to be prevented. Research and effective education are necessary to reduce alcoholic addiction. Some of the biases must be avoided through the relation and putting into practice the use of reliable and valid information. Accurate information about the effects of alcohol and the causes of addiction must then be revealed to rightfully educate these people on the possible ways to reduce drug abuse. Prevention of tendencies of biases is, therefore, imperative to be able to come up with rationalized solutions on alcohol addiction.

Research and Null Hypotheses

The research question that will be developing, in this case, is "does environmental in age influence an individual's alcohol consumption thus leading to alcohol addiction?" This research will reveal that environmental influence really matters a lot when it comes to alcohol consumption. A student may have a bad company while at school but when he returns home, he is little accessed to alcoholic beverages hence they cannot find time to visit such places (Nessa, Latif, Siddiqui, Hussain & Hossain, 2008).

The hypothesis is environmental influences in age about substance abuse. The hypothesis will be able to drive conduction of a perfect research that will bring out the cause and effect relationship. The null hypothesis has it that environmental influences in age have no impact on alcohol consumption of an individual. I will consider this null hypothesis as an alternative hypothesis since my opinion tells me otherwise that environmental influenced in age have severe impacts to alcohol addiction (Marlatt & Donovan, 2005).

References

Marlatt, G. A., & Donovan, D. M. (Eds.). (2005). Relapse prevention: Maintenance strategies in the treatment of addictive behaviors. Guilford Press.

Nessa, A., Latif, S. A., Siddiqui, N. I., Hussain, M. A., & Hossain, M. A. (2008). Drug abuse and addiction. Mymensingh medical journal: MMJ, 17(2), 227-235.