Week 5 ISPSY 8202 Discussion

For this discussion prior to conducting research, there is a

necessity of identifying the structure and the outline of the
investigation. Keeping in mind that a research design directs
towards decisions that are essential to be made about conducting
the research (Frankfort-Nachmias & Nachmias, 2008). The main
interest in this survey research proposal is in studying Puerto
Rico Police Department law enforcement agents job satisfaction.
Specifically, we would like to know if the working environment or
conditions have an impact in their job satisfaction. To find out,
we plan to administer a survey of Work Attitudes for Police
Officers. We will recruit randomly from the different Law
enforcement department sub-divisions, using survey examination
system.
The reason that Survey Research is chosen in this proposal
is that Job satisfaction surveys help you make a meaningful
connection between employees criteria for job satisfaction and
the organizations goals, also it can engage the organization
workforce in a truly satisfying way (Presser & Blair, 1994).
Finally, a survey is the form that we can gathered data more
efficiently, since we are assessing job satisfaction by using a
survey we can provide a confidential manner. According to
Bradburn, Sudman, and Wansink (2004) conducting surveys in the
workplace can help you measure peoples attitudes and insights
about everything from leadership style and organizations
practices to their overall satisfaction. The advantage of
conducting surveys in the workplace is that the process will give
you a detailed picture of the thoughts and feelings of those in
the organization.

References
Bradburn, N. M., Sudman, S., & Wansink, B. (2004). Asking
questions: the definitive guide to questionnaire design-for market research, political polls, and social and health
questionnaires. John Wiley & Sons.

Frankfort-Nachmias, C., & Nachmias, D. (2008).

Research methods

in the social sciences (7th ed.). New York: Worth.

Presser, S., & Blair, J. (1994). Survey pretesting: Do different
methods produce different results? Sociological Methodology,
24(1), 73104.

Response
Good post and interesting choice. According to Groves,
Fowler, Couper, Lepkowski, Singer, and Tourangeu (2009) social
psychologists are interested in understanding how people
influence, and are influenced by, their social environment. For
you proposed research topic I think that a Cross-sectional survey
can give you the opportunity to evaluate connections (Bradburn,
Sudman, & Wansink, 2004). That connection can be between the
Veterans that live in the rural area and their perception of the
health services; also you can have an assessment of the different
subgroups in that situations such as veterans educational level
for example.
Reference
Bradburn, N. M., Sudman, S., & Wansink, B. (2004). Asking
questions: the definitive guide to questionnaire design-for market research, political polls, and social and health
questionnaires. John Wiley & Sons.
Groves, R.M., Fowler, F.J., Couper, M.P., Lepkowski, J.M.,
Singer, E., & Tourangeau, R. (2009). Survey Methodology.
Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
Response two:
According to Frankfort-Nachmias and Nachmias (2008) surveys offer the
opportunity to execute studies with various designs, each of which is suitable for
addressing particular research questions of long-standing interest to the human
behavior field. Since you are giving multiple formats of the survey can helps you get

higher responses, but in the other hand can make you have total survey error (Groves,
Fowler, Couper, Lepkowski, Singer, & Tourangeu, 2009). According to Groves et al.
(2009) total survey error measure particular constructs within a sample of people who
represent the population of interest. In any given survey, the overall deviation from this
ideal is the cumulative result of several sources of survey error. Hope my comments
helps you with your proposal.
References
Frankfort-Nachmias, C., & Nachmias, D. (2008). Research methods in the social
sciences (7th ed.). New York: Worth.
Groves, R.M., Fowler, F.J., Couper, M.P., Lepkowski, J.M., Singer, E., & Tourangeau,
R. (2009). Survey Methodology. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.