Due:11:55pm, Sunday, Week 5 11th Feb 2024.Submission time is based onMelbournetime.

Due:11:55pm, Sunday, Week 5 11th Feb 2024.Submission time is based onMelbournetime.

Details of task:For this assessment, you will continue to write the remainder of a psychology Journal Manuscript (Abstract, Method: Design, Results, and Discussion).You will create an SPSS data file using the data provided, clean your data and test assumptions for relevant analyses, conduct descriptive and inferential analyses to test your hypotheses from Assignment 1, and report and interpret your findings.

Assignment Details

For an overview of your written assessments, the study context, key variables, and starting references refer to theStudy details.

Overview:

Using your aim and hypothesis/es developed from your "Lab Report: Introduction" in Assessment 1, produce a Lab Report that includes the following sections:

Title Page + Title

Aim to produce a catchy yet professional title for your paper that addresses the outcome of the relationship of interest. This title can be different from that which was submitted in Assessment 1. Please use the GDPA title page template found here:GDPA Assignment Title Page Template.

Abstract

Your abstract should provide a succinct summary of the report overall (i.e. all sections should be represented in the Abstract). Your abstract should address the problem under investigation - including the hypothesis/es, a brief description of participants and their characteristics, the essential features of the research design and study methodology, the basic findings including effect sizes and confidence intervals orp-values, and the conclusions and implications/applications of the findings. Your abstract should not exceed 160 words (not included in your main word limit).

Aim and Hypothesis/esYou must include your study aim/s and hypothesis/es on a separate page after your Abstract. Markers will reference your aim/s and hypothesis/es to make sure that they are addressed in your Lab Report. You mayedityour hypotheses for your Lab Report based on your Assessment 1 feedback.Notethat when writing a Lab Report, your study has already been conducted therefore your hypothesis/es should be written in the past tense, e.g. It was hypothesised that.

You do not need to write an introduction, as you have effectively done this in Assessment 1.

MethodClickStudy detailsto find the appropriate link to the study Method. (This information does not need to go in the Lab Report.)

Design.In this section, you will need towritethe study Design. Generally, a traditional design section includes a summary of the research design, including mention of the predictor (independent) variable/s, dependent variable/s, and covariate/s, information about groups and group allocation (if group comparisons are being made), and any specific design aspects that have been considered in selecting your analytic approach. (Please note, that listing all of these here doesn't mean that they are all relevant to your study.) You should expect this section to be roughly 60-150 words in length.

Results

To complete this section, you will need to download the Data File (Excel spreadsheet, .xlsx) and import it into SPSS so that it can be saved as an SPSS file (.sav) for subsequent use. You will need to appropriately annotate your file by labeling your variables before conducting the required analyses.ClickStudy detailsto find the appropriate Data file.

In this section of the Lab Report, you will need to report:Data Cleaning,Assumption Testing,Preliminary Analyses(such as descriptive statistics and correlations), andInferential Statistics(specifically, mediationormoderation analysis using Hayes' PROCESS macro in SPSS). Reporting the details of the assumption tests should be concise yet informative enough to demonstrate your understanding of the criteria, outcomes of each statistical assumption, and your decision-making process for addressing any violations of assumptions. You should expect this section to be roughly 650 words in length.

Discussion

In this section, you will need to provide a clear statement of whether or not your hypothesis/es were supported. You will need to discuss the similarities and differences of your study findings with reference to the scholarly literature reviewed in Assessment 1. You should also provide an interpretation of the results, including both the strengths and limitations of the study. Consider any potential bias, the precision of measures, adequacy of sample sizes and sampling validity, generalisability of your findings to the target population, and any other strengths or weaknesses of the study including alternative explanations of the results. Finally, you will need to provide a reasoned and justifiable commentary on the importance of your study findings by considering future research directions (these should address any limitations you describe earlier) and consider both theoretical and clinical/practical/real-world applications of your findings. Finally, provide a clear conclusion summarising the key points of your study/report. You should expect this section to be roughly 700 words in length.

References

Include all cited sources according to APA 7th formatting requirements. You do not need to include sources used for Assessment 1 if they are not included in Assessment 2. Where it is reasonable to do so, you may include new scholarly literature in your assessment that you did not use in Assessment 1.

Appendix A - Data File

Copy and paste screenshots of your data view and variable view into your assessment file.You will need to screenshotall casesin your Data File. This will allow your instructor to check that the data has been correctly entered and to see what changes have been made to your data throughout your data cleaning/assumption testing process. Other than including APA formatted headings for your Appendix, you do not need to format Appendix A to comply with APA formatting requirements.

Other than including APA formatted headings for your Appendix, you do not need to format Appendix A to comply with APA formatting requirements. Therefore, the screenshots can remain in their original format.

SPSS Output(submitted as a separate file)

Export afull copyof yourfinalSPSS Outputrelevant to the analysis/espresented in your Assessment. You can use the panel on the left of your SPSS program to reorder your output and remove any sections that are no longer relevant to your final data treatment and results. YourSPSS Outputshould include the automatic syntax commands that appear in the standard Output (.spv) file. These are presented as "UPPER BLOCK TEXT" before each of your analyses and inform the marker of which analysis/es was/were conducted and what relevant selections were made. As such, you are asked to present these automated syntax commands in your final output. You do not need to download or export or copy any additional syntax from the Syntax window. For those using PROCESS, you do not need to include the syntax for the PROCESS macro extension.

These instructionsshow you how to export your output from SPSS as a PDF or Word document. You do not need to format your SPSS Output to comply with APA formatting requirements. Therefore, the output can remain in its original format. Note: If exporting a Word version of the document, please ensure that you save the file as a PDF for your submission.

The context for your study:

In recent years, social media usage has increased exponentially in line with technological advances and in light of global events. In its various forms, social media usage may offer several benefits such as increased connectivity and social capital, among others (Ostic et al., 2021; Taylor et al., 2022). On the other hand, recent evidence also suggests that social media use, particularly problematic social media use (PSMU), may have deleterious effects on the users mental health, including symptoms of anxiety (Shannon et al., 2022).

Given that the mental health outcomes of social media use are not uniform, individual characteristics, such as the ability (or difficulty) to effectively regulate emotions, may play an important role in these outcomes. This may be considered through the theoretical framework of the differential susceptibility to media effects model (DSMM; Valkenburg & Peter, 2013). The DSMM proposes that dispositional, developmental, and/or social factors may increase the susceptibility of an individual to either positive or negative media effects. However, you are also encouraged to consider other theoretical frameworks that may explain the relationship between these variables.

Currently, evidence suggests that the relationship between PSMU and anxiety symptoms may be bidirectional, with each influencing the other. For the purposes of this study however, we will be focusing on the unidirectional influence of PSMU on anxiety symptoms. Within this project, you will need to use the available evidence and theories to propose whether difficulty regulating emotions would act as a mediator or moderator in the relationship between PSMU and anxiety symptoms.

Study Variables:

For context, and to assist you in generating your hypothesis/es, the variables in the study are as follows:

Problematic social media use (independentvariable)

Anxiety (dependentvariable)

Difficulty with emotion regulation (mediator/moderator variable)

For more information about the way these variables are measured refer to theMethod (linked below).

Starting references:

The following sources are recommended as suitable articles to get you started on this review. You will need to conduct a further review of the literature to assist you in developing your hypotheses. Although the relevant DOI's have been provided, to access these articles please use thePSY4401 Reading Listor log into the Monash Library page, and use the library search facilities:

Drach, R. D., Orloff, N. C., & Hormes, J. M. (2021). The emotion regulatory function of online social networking: Preliminary experimental evidence.Addictive Behaviors, 112, 106559106559. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2020.106559

Schneider, R. L., Arch, J. J., Landy, L. N., & Hankin, B. L. (2018). The longitudinal effect of emotion regulation strategies on anxiety levels in children and adolescents.Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 47(6), 978991. https://doi.org/10.1080/15374416.2016.1157757

Shannon, H., Bush, K., Villeneuve, P. J., Hellemans, K. G., & Guimond, S. (2022). Problematic social media use in adolescents and young adults: Systematic review and meta-analysis.JMIR Mental Health, 9(4), e33450e33450. https://doi.org/10.2196/33450

Vannucci, A., Flannery, K. M., & Ohannessian, C. M. (2017). Social media use and anxiety in emerging adults.Journal of Affective Disorders, 207, 163166. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2016.08.040