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Kielayameosha Carswell

Ayuanna Washington

Alexandria LaMont

Briana BanksPSY 305L

Proposal Outline

10-3-2014

Topic: Does college students participation in risky driving behavior diferaccording to gender and the type o institution they attend?

Introduction-Previous research has examined risky driving behaviors in African American students at

HBCUs, other research has examined risky driving behaviors at predominately hite institutions,but there doesn!t appear to be any students that combine the to"

-#here are multiple studies that examine one ethnic group,usually of Caucasian descent, thismakes the results difficult to generali$e to the larger population, including African American

students"

-Conducting a study that compares students at HBCUs and P%&s , makes the results relevant toAfrican American students and allos for comparison beteen the groups to detect a possible

difference"

-As ell as examining the relationship beteen students at HBCUs and P%& s,gender shouldalso be analy$ed, to detect differences beteen the genders"

-#he goal is to generali$e this information to students at other P%&s and HBCUs"

-Hypothesis'College students!s participation in risky driving behavior does not differ according

to the type of institute they attend and gender"

Methods

Sample

-(or this study male and female students from )eorgia #ech University and students from

the Atlanta University Center ill be surveyed"

- #he population e ill be examining is college students , both black and hite" *ur

sample includes students from the AUC ho are representative of black college students andstudents from georgia tech ho are representative of hite college students"

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- #he stratified random sampling method ill be used "#he sample ill include +

students from )eorgia #ech, ill be male, ill be female" #here ill also be + students

from the AUC, ill be male and ill be female"

- Participants ill be found from college campuses in the AUC as ell as )eorgia #ech"

-Participants ill respond to a flier thats asks for participation in a student involving riskydriving behaviors" (olloing their response, information ill be collected from the participant

to ensure that they .ualify" #here ill only be males and females selected from )eorgia tech

and the same from the AUC"

- &nclusion criteria for )eorgia tech include being a currently enrolled student and being

caucasian " &nclusion criteria for students in the AUC include being a currently enrolled student

and being African American" /tudents ill be beteen the ages of +0-12 "Anyone ho doesnot fit the above criteria ould be excluded"

Measures-

#here are to independent variables in this study" #he first &3 is gender, the levels aremale and female"

- #he second &3 is the type of institution attended , the levels are Historically Black

College and Predominately %hite institution"

- #he 43 is risky driving behaviors" &n this study risky driving behaviors are defined as +"

4riving hile under the influence of alcohol 1" 4riving hile under the influence of mari5uana

6" 4riving hile under the influence of any other drugs"

- A .uestionnaire ill be used as the measure for all variables in this study" #he

.uestionnaire ill ask participates ho often they take part in the risky behaviors" /tudents hoindicate that they participate in risky driving behaviors more often ill have a higher score thanstudent!s ho do not"

rocedures

!4ata collection ill take course over to days" #here ill be a day that )eorgia #ech studentsare assessed and a day students from the AUC are assessed"

-/urveys ill be done using pencil and paper"

-#he .uestionnaire ill take about ten minutes"

-Participants ill use personal identifiers rather than use their names to protect confidentiality"

-Participants ill not be compensated monetarily, but a small snack ill be provided folloingthe completion of the survey"

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Data "nalysis lan-Hypothesis' College students!s participation in risky driving behavior does not differ according

to the type of institute they attend and gender"

-#he first &3 is gender, the levels are male and female"

-#he second &3 is type of institution attended, the levels are HBCU and P%&"

- #he dependent variable is participation in risky driving behaviors"

- A to ay A7*3A ill be conducted using /P//

Study design- #his study ill have a cross sectional design"