All four of us met together and finalized our mission statement:
Our mission is to work together with the YWCA to plan a 2-3 hour dialogue event, during their annual women's week, for women and girls about improving self-esteem. As part of our mission we will do research so the event reflects the interests of women both in the broader community and in the YWCA shelter.
Also, in the comments of this post we will be brainstorming ideas for questions to ask on two surveys: one for girl and one for adult and adolescent women. Leslie and Emily will be making contacts to find spaces to get responses to the survey (including hopefully the shelter at the YWCA).
This is broader than your first plan. it's a great idea!
ReplyDeleteCreating a space for dialogue is also great. You'll have to be great facilitators to encourage women to talk about YWCA.
re survey, I don't think that adult's and adolescent women's questions could be the same. Depending on the size of the groups and the number of questions you're planning to ask, I'd suggest that you develop 3 surveys.
I'd also like to see the list of your journal articles.
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When is YWCA's event/s?
Ideas for surveys:
ReplyDeleteOn all surveys, we need demographic information like we talked about: race/ethnicity, age, possibly sexual orientation for the adult respondents. However, unless we're specifically going to include information based on responses to that question, we may as well not ask it since it could be considered invasive. Should we still as gender even though we want to give the survey only to women (since that's the population the Y serves)
Children: How do you feel about yourself most the time (scale with smile at one end and frown at the other)
How do you feel about yourself right now?
What makes you feel extra good?
What makes you feel extra bad?
How does it feel when people say mean things to you? (scale)
How does it feel when people say nice things to you? (scale)
Do you like art or activities more? (or something similar to get ideas about what to do in the workshop)
Teens: How do you feel about yourself most the time? (1-10 scale)
How do you feel about yourself right now? (scale)
What things makes you feel good about yourself?
What things make you feel bad about yourself?
What do you do when you are feeling bad to make yourself feel better?
Do other people ever say or do things that make you feel good or bad about yourself? What?
If you were to meet with people your age to talk about self-esteem and feeling good about yourself, would you rather just talk about it, do an activity, or do an art project?
Adult: How do you define self-esteem?
What outside influences affect your self-esteem?
Is there anything that you do to improve your self-esteem?
Would you want to attend a free event with other women in the community about self-esteem?
If there were to be a speaker at the event, who would you want to hear from?
Just some ideas! I've always been really bad at questions because I tend to make them leading. Let me know if any of you see that issue with these.
I really like the questions that you came up with Emily!
DeleteWith the children questions, are we having them do a fill in the blank type answer for example the question about "what makes you feel really good?" Should we be more specific, rephrasing it as, "What things make you feel good about yourself?" Just breaking it down so that our younger audience has an idea of what we mean just like when it's asked for the teens.
After watching the video about asking 50 people what they would change about themselves, it made me wonder about asking that question and what the responses would be and if the age groups would have similar answers. Asking something like "If you could change something about your body, what would it be". I realize that this question is about body image and we are doing it about self esteem, yet it would help guide us as to what women are mostly insecure about. If most of the young girls say, "my height" for example we can make sure to emphasis body image more in that group, if they said, "my shyness" then we would be able to focus on something like that. Just an idea :) I would ask that question and "what people have influenced your self esteem?" or "how do the women in your life feel about themselves and does that affect your self esteem?" That might not be exactly how I word it but I think that knowing what role models women have is important. Are they looking at celebrities? Mom? Sister? etc.
Do you those questions would be helpful?
I was thinking that for my survey's we could do them online. The kids I work with have access to computers every week and I have already got the okay from their computer teacher. I think it would make it easier to compile our research. I know it might not be possible for the women at the YWCA and WRC.
ReplyDeleteI think that's awesome to do survey's online for the kids and then we could do written one's for the YWCA and WRC :) if we have both electronic and written surveys, it can reach a greater audience.
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