Hello! 🙂
My mentor suggests that my research question be very specific so that it is unique and not already done, which is a given, I’m sure. That being said, I’m okay with you tweaking it to make it better in that respect. I have my overall research topic, but I don’t have the question pinned down yet, which is something I also need help with and will let you decide what’s best since you are the expert.
My topic:
I will be focusing on the topic of U.S. grandparents raising grandchildren and the biopsychosocial effects that it has on their health and wellbeing with an additional emphasis on how one’s race or cultural background may affect those factors, including but not limited to individuals from the following groups: African-Americans, Mexican-Americans, Asian-Americans, and Caucasians from various socioeconomic backgrounds.
I’m not sure how I can turn this into an effective research question.
As far as what my program is looking for, they haven’t given me very many rules on this assignment as far as formatting. I do know it needs to be APA, but that’s all that was mentioned. The primary thing they’ve requested is that it is a SYSTEMATIC & COMPREHENSIVE literature review. They do want to see that I can apply an understanding of the gerontological framework and theories to this review. They want to see that (through research) I can distinguish factors related to aging outcomes, both intrinsic and contextual. Other than that, we really do have quite a bit of freedom in how we want to approach this because that’s about all the instructions stated.