How Social Media Impacts Teen Self-Esteem: A Statistical Analysis

Final Project: Statistical Research on Social Media Usage and Self-Esteem Name Institutional Affiliation Course name Instructor’s name Assignment due date Final Project: Statistical Research on Social Media Usage and Self-Esteem The design of the study demonstrates how the team plans to collect data, their methodology, and the interpretation of results from data analysis. The current research seeks to determine the relationship between social media usage and self-esteem levels among adolescents. Data collection would involve a random sample of students attending a selected secondary school that would demonstrate the relationship between the variables. The study is a descriptive research that would seek to determine the characteristics of a phenomenon about a population. Data analysis would be through the regression technique that would indicate the direction of the correlation, the amount of variance explained by the independent variable, and the significance of the slope. Interpretation of the results would provide insightful information to stakeholders on how social media usage affects self-esteem levels. To study the relationship between social media usage and self-esteem among adolescents, the team would use random sampling to select participants, administer surveys, use regression to analyze the data, and interpret the R-squared, slope, and the significance of the slope. Part I: Data Collection Determining the data collection process is an important part of the research that would determine how the results represent the phenomenon under investigation. For this study, using a sample as opposed to the whole population is appropriate since it would be unmanageable to collect da