Locate two additional empirical articles related to your chosen research topic. This will give you a total of five articles, including the three articles from your Discussion this week. (I WILL BE ADDING THREE ARTICLES, YOU WILL NEED TO FIND 2 MORE)
Review the article by Davies in the Learning Resources
In previous coursework, you focused on the mind map section of this article. Now focus on the concept map section (pages 282–286 Davies Article).
Part 1:
Submit a concept map based on your chosen research topic that you will potentially use in your capstone or dissertation. (MY TOPIC IS MENTAL HEALTH IN SINGLE MOTHERS & HOW IT EFFECTS THEIR CHILDREN)
Type your potential research topic in the top-tier box of your concept map.
Using your research from this week, place your five research articles in the next tier of your map.
Under each of the five articles, write in a minimum of three concepts from the article. What stood out to you? This could include similar key words, locations, or participant demographics. It could also include something from the problem statement or results, or possibly something you observed in the research methods, assumptions, or underpinnings.
Connect the three concepts under each article with a vertical line and in between each connection, note any initial observations—what are the vertical relationships?
Now, observe connections in the concepts across the five empirical research articles. Connect those concepts with a horizonal line and note any observations—what are the horizontal relationships?
Part 2:
Submit a 1- to 2-page paper that addresses the following:
Briefly, describe your research topic that you placed in the top tier of your concept map.
Describe what you did differently when researching your two additional articles for this Assignment. How did your Discussion this week inform any changes you made?
Explain the vertical connections you made under each of your research articles. What do these connections tell you as you continue your research?
Explain the horizontal connections you made across your research articles. What do these connections tell you as you continue your research?
Based on the concepts and connections you documented in your concept map, what are some possible opportunities to narrow your topic
ARTICLES:
Atkins
R. Self-efficacy and the promotion of health for depressed single mothers. Ment
Health Fam Med. 2010 Sep;7(3):155-68. PMID: 22477937; PMCID: PMC3018952.
Daryanani
I, Hamilton JL, Abramson LY, Alloy LB. Single Mother Parenting and Adolescent
Psychopathology. J Abnorm Child Psychol. 2016 Oct;44(7):1411-23. doi:
10.1007/s10802-016-0128-x. PMID: 26767832; PMCID: PMC5226056.
Agnafors,
S., Bladh, M., Svedin, C.G. et al. Mental health in young mothers, single
mothers and their children. BMC Psychiatry 19, 112 (2019).
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-019-2082-y
