clinical practical

Question 1

what did previous research show about how mental illness is portrayed in the media?

Answer 1

• stuart found that the media consistently show a overwhelmingly dramatic and distorted image of mental illness
• this has consequences for self esteem and overall recovery

Question 2

what was the research question?

Answer 2

• does the media sensationalise mental illness in a negative way compared to the reality of mental illness

Question 3

what was the sample of sources used?

Answer 3

• 3 factual sources e.g. Gerald had a meeting to stay in the hospitals
• 3 fictional sources e.g. a beautiful mind (2001)

Question 4

what was the summative approach used?

Answer 4

• define the categories/ codes
• frequency of these categories then quantified and counted (manifest content)

Question 5

what was the procedure we used?

Answer 5

• selected 3 real life cases and 3 fictional cases
• we wrote transcripts of media cases
• defined categories, verbal aggression = shouting and threats, physical aggression = hitting and pushing
• read through transcripts and counted the frequency of key terms (manifest content)
• latent content = some themes we recorded the context which occurs

Question 6

what were some of the comparisons found between the clips?

Answer 6

• same length of clips for fair comparison (8 mins)
• most sources female but 2 genders in each condition
• most people of similar ages

Question 7

what were the conclusions about verbal aggression in both fictional and real life cases?

Answer 7

• fictional = 47%
• real life = 29%

Question 8

what did the qualitative findings show?

Answer 8

• in real life cases a reoccuring latent theme is abandonment whereas there isn’t always a reason in fictional films

Question 9

where was more aggression shown, fictional or real life?

Answer 9

• fictional

Question 10

what is an issue with low generalisability?

Answer 10

• the sources used were all secondary from 1999-2017 as well as two real life cases
• media portrayal may have changed over time

Question 11

what is a strength of the data collected in the study?

Answer 11

• both qual and quant data gathered e.g. tally of acts and latent content
• triangulation can occur

Question 12

what is a strength of operationalisation and a CA?

Answer 12

• counting the number of behaviours as they appeared which were fully operationalised before analysis
• CA = some behaviours may be missed

Question 13

what is a strength of reliability?

Answer 13

• content analysis with coding schemes which were clearly operationalised and using pre-existing sources which can be repeated on multiple occasions to check behaviours

Question 14

what is an issue with subjectivity of the clips?

Answer 14

• only used selected clips from entire films
• researcher bias may occur

Question 15

what is a strength of ethics?

Answer 15

• no participants used as it was secondary data
• not causing any additional harm