Interview vs Survey Nyeema Lee Interview Research Question

Interview vs. Survey Nyeema Lee

Interview

Research Question What form of media makes you feel at peace? (Social media, Print, Blogging, Youtube, etc. )?

Background and Purpose Mental health and your overall sanity is as important, if not more, than your physical. With social media seemingly at its peak, I wonder if people understand how to make sure they are healthy, and that if they aren’t, to know social media isn’t always the cure.

Questions & Top Answers:

What is peace to you? A clean space to kick my feet up, to be as loud or silent as I wish to be all while listening to music that translates my feelings

What makes you feel peaceful outside of media? Music, reading, playing basketball

What is stress to you? Stress to me is feeling overwhelmed anxious

How did you learn to cope with the feeling of stress? Smoked weed first, but now I mostly reflect on the now and what I can do to determine and control my life’s events

Have you tried multiple forms of media to relieve stress? Which ones? Porn, Instagram, Netflix, Facebook

When maintaining your peace, do you stay away from a form of media? Why? When I’m trying to maintain my peace I eliminate all forms of media. . I take a hiatus for as long as I need to and that helps me a lot

What do you typically use your media outlets for? I use social media to keep in touch with people and to find out what is happening in the world, especially in my home country

Can you tell me a specific stressful event linked to a form of media? Seeing black people brutally shot or killed in videos

Can you tell me a specific peaceful event linked to a form of media? Sometimes I make my husband watch Vogue makeup tutorials on Youtube with me at night. It’s really fun and helps us bond about things he may not naturally know I’m interested in. He’s learned a lot too. We laugh and have fun and it feels good sharing my interests with him

Can you remember your mental state before you knew of your favorite media outlet? If so, how was it? I don’t remember actually which I wish I could but if I had to take a guess on it, It would probably be a more peaceful and productive mental state. I used to read a lot of books and just spend my time wisely in general before I identified with my favorite media outlet. That’s why I take hiatuses because I have to remind myself to use my time wisely and to apply myself with things that aren’t virtual.

Compare/Contrast Responses The responses were all different. My interviewees aged from 19 -36, single to married. It was interesting to actually see people respond in a way where they’ve noticed toxicity coming from their interactions on social platforms. Also, many people have learned multiple ways to find peace for themselves outside of media.

Explain the experience. . This experience was fulfilling because I myself have had trouble finding peace within myself. No, media isn’t always bad, however, realizing that we were once functioning humans before technology is vital to keep human interaction alive.

Forthcoming? Or making it up? From a few of my younger interviewees I received vague and similar responses. The older, the more in depth the responses became, also because they remember a world before social media.

What to do differently Next time I would encourage my younger interviewees to dig deeper, also see what they’d like to discuss when it comes to these types of conversations.

Survey

Research Question: Is social media creating or aiding mental health issues in our society?

Background and Purpose: Mental health is as important as, if not more than, your physical. With social media seemingly at its peak, I wonder if people are aware of their mental health and what helps or diminishes their mental growth.

Survey Questions & Answers:

Peace is having a calm state of mind? A scale was presented where majority (25 of 32) Strongly Agreed

What makes you feel at peace outside of media? Of set responses: Social activities, Being alone, Reading, and Other. . 50% responded Being alone

Stress is a buildup of tension/frustration? A scale was presented where majority (27 of 32) Strongly Agreed

I cope with stress by, ____ ? A list of options were presented where majority chose “listening to music”

I’ve tried multiple forms of media to relieve stress? 65% agreed

I stay away from ____ when stressed? Of set responses: Social media, Crowds, My devices, and Other. . 65% chose Crowds.

I use my media outlets for ___ Of set responses: Entertainment, Keeping in touch with family and friends, Knowledge, and Other. . 62% chose Entertainment

I have Stressful events linked directly to social media 81% disagreed

I have Peaceful events linked directly to social media 50% agreed/disagreed

Compare & Contrast the answers Most of the people who answered gave the opposite of what i was expecting. Maybe social media affects me more than it does everyone else.

Explain the Experience: This experience was quite easy, I posted it to my social media and allowed anyone to answer. I actually received the opposite of what I was expecting. I also realize I should have asked some different questions, ones that made more sense to the background and purpose.

Forthcoming or making up answers? I believe everyone was pretty forthcoming with their responses, and probably would have been more forthcoming if they had the opportunity to make their own responses.

What to do differently? The questions asked would be a lot more exact to what my purpose is.

Survey Vs. Interview

Pros and Cons

Generating information Interview Pro: ● Clarity on research question and formulating questions geared to it Con: ● Survey Pro: ● Formulating the actual survey was engaging Con: Trying to ask questions without being bias ● Asking questions in relation to my research question

Conducting the Interview/Survey Interview Pro: ● Interviewees got to answer freely, allowing a personal response Con: ● Survey Pro: ● Interviewer can gage the responses, allowing answers to be more uniformed Con: Short unengaged responses ● Data could be bias based off set answer options

The Process

Interview vs. Survey For the Interview, I asked people I knew via text and social media for their responses. For the Survey, I posted on my facebook and allowed any and everyone to answer.

Preferred Method

Interview vs. Survey I definitely prefer the Survey method, however, I should have understood my research question so my survey could have given me better results.