Timeline

Estimated Timeline:

My project will begin on November 15th, 2016. On this date I will have submitted my IRB (Institutional Review Board) application in order to be passed to ethically experiment on human subjects. Once I have received IRB approval, I will begin advertising my research participation on campus and in the community. After I recruit my participants, I will need to meet with each participant dyad (married couple) to give them the instructions for the study and have them fill out all of the surveys that I will be using to analyze the data. I anticipate this meeting with the couples will take around 45 minutes per dyad.  After the 3-week period of participating in the study, I will again meet with the couples to collect their materials, give them the follow-up surveys, and debrief them. This will take approximately 35-50 minutes per couple. I anticipate that I will have at least 40 couples participating in the study. I will have this work completed by February 17th, 2017.

Once I have collected the data from all of my participants, I will code the data and run statistical analysis. This will take approximately 8 hours to do. After that is completed, I can write my research paper. This should all be completed by March 6, 2017.