To find out whether people's attitudes regarding an issue vary with their ages, Karen distributes the same survey to groups of people in their 20s, 30s, 40s, and 50s. What kind of research is Karen conducting?

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Edwin Pearson

12 April, 07:57

To find out whether people's attitudes regarding an issue vary with their ages, Karen distributes the same survey to groups of people in their 20s, 30s, 40s, and 50s. What kind of research is Karen conducting?

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Cross-sectional

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Cross-sectional research: In psychological research, the term cross-sectional research is defined as one of the research methods in which the researcher or the experimenter uses different or distinct groups of participants that differ in the interest (variable) but share a few characteristics, for example, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and educational background, etc. It has been widely used in the field of developmental psychology by various researchers.

In the question above, Karen is conducting cross-sectional research.