Madon : Self-fulfilling prophecy & drinking behaviour
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- Created on: 29-03-15 12:24
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- Madon : self-fulfilling prophecy & drinking behaviour
- Aim
- See if parents expectation lead to reality
- Procedure
- 115 children between 12 - 13 and their parents questioned
- Parents guess how much child regularly drank
- Children said how much they consumed a year later
- Results
- children who drank most, parents predicted they would
- Took 1 parent to have negative opinion on childs drinking to actually happen
- Higher risk if both parents had negative beliefs
- Conclusion
- Parents prediction was very accurate
- Parents beliefs can have big impact
- Strengths
- Large sample - results more likely to be valid
- Study gave warning about holding negative beliefs
- Weaknesses
- May have been accurate prediction not self-fulfilling prophecy
- Other people could influence children
- Only show correlation cannot be sure of true link between variables
- Questionnaire could have socially desirability bias
- Aim
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