Goals from last week: My main goal from last week was to have a sucessful oral presentation, which i would say in a lot of ways did happen. I have made significant process on my research paper, but it isn't yet finished. I plan to finish it by the weekend.
Mentor: I had a mentor meeting over the phone this last monday about my research paper, and finishing up the small details about some of the questions i was having. The main focus on the meeting was on peer relationships, rather than romantic relationships..
Research/Product:
I did a few last minute research for my paper over this week, alonside preparing for the oral presentation.
One of the artictles I read talked about that for both male and female youth, greater perceived peer risk involvement predicted higher sexual risk behavior index scores, and greater parental monitoring predicted lower scores. Reciprocal relationships were found between parental monitoring and sexual risk behavior for males and between perceived peer risk involvement and sexual risk behavior for females. For males, greater sexual risk behavior predicted lower parental monitoring; for females, greater sexual risk behavior predicted higher perceived peer risk involvement. According to latent growth curve models, a higher initial level of parental monitoring predicted decreases in sexual risk behavior, whereas both a higher initial level and a higher growth rate of peer risk involvement predicted increases in sexual risk behavior
Goals for the next working week: I plan to start furthering the advancement of my product in the next working week. I want to be able to start contacting schools and their administrators and health teachers to see if my educational materials could be implemented.
Mentor: I had a mentor meeting over the phone this last monday about my research paper, and finishing up the small details about some of the questions i was having. The main focus on the meeting was on peer relationships, rather than romantic relationships..
Research/Product:
I did a few last minute research for my paper over this week, alonside preparing for the oral presentation.
One of the artictles I read talked about that for both male and female youth, greater perceived peer risk involvement predicted higher sexual risk behavior index scores, and greater parental monitoring predicted lower scores. Reciprocal relationships were found between parental monitoring and sexual risk behavior for males and between perceived peer risk involvement and sexual risk behavior for females. For males, greater sexual risk behavior predicted lower parental monitoring; for females, greater sexual risk behavior predicted higher perceived peer risk involvement. According to latent growth curve models, a higher initial level of parental monitoring predicted decreases in sexual risk behavior, whereas both a higher initial level and a higher growth rate of peer risk involvement predicted increases in sexual risk behavior
Goals for the next working week: I plan to start furthering the advancement of my product in the next working week. I want to be able to start contacting schools and their administrators and health teachers to see if my educational materials could be implemented.