PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS 2
Psychological Factors
This study focuses on the mental factors that affect the way teenagers who live in
impoverished parts of urban areas spend their time when not in school. Impoverished urban areas
are those urban areas that are poor, areas that have poor sanitation, the amenity resources in such
areas are not sufficient or are lacking. The teenagers who live in these areas often come from
low-income families, and this means that they cannot be able to afford most of the resources. In
this study, I used a scientific method to conduct the research, and this is because the scientific
methods are standardized and guide the way observations, data gathering, testing of the
predictions, the interpretation of the results obtained and the formulation of theories is done. In
this study, I used the test method to conduct the research. I applied the test method in this study
because it offers the information that is required in coming up with correct and conclusive results
(Brannen, 2017). Through this method, I was able to get information about the characteristics of
the teenagers living in the impoverished urban areas. The information that I used in completing
the study include; the personality traits of the youths, the emotional states of the people living in
the urban areas that are impoverished, the aptitudes, the abilities of the teens, the values and the
behaviors of the teenagers. Some potential errors are associated with this method. The possible
errors that are related to this method include; systematic errors, these errors arise from the way
the experiments in the study are conducted. Random errors are the other type of mistakes that
can potentially occur when the investigation is being performed.
A hypothesis is a prediction that is testable about the things that are going to happen
when some specific conditions are met. To test the hypothesis, the psychologists and researchers
use particular research methods. If the hypothesis is false or does not meet the requirements that
have been set, it is either revised or rejected (Thomas, Silverman & Nelson, 2015). A null
hypothesis is a statistical test that does not have any significant variation between the populations
