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Begin to complete ethos form

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Started Data collection

Posted a link to the questionnaire alongside a description of the study on my LinkedIn profile.

Contacted friends who posted a link to the questionnaire alongside a description of the study on MMU women's rugby, MMU dance and MMU football group chats .

Contacted friends who fit participant inclusion criteria with a link to the study and description of the study and also asked them to pass it on to anyone else they knew who also fit the criteria.

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Ethos form fully completed.

Started a literary summary table to help support my literature review part of my introduction.

I started with broad topic knowledge and then go more specific with studies to lead onto research question. I gave thought to what order to put studies in the table to ensure those with similar findings and results are grouped together, to ensure flow in my introduction.

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A brief plan of what to include in my introduction

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First draft of introduction was written.

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First draft of intro sent to Paul, my supervisor.

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Made corrections on my introduction based on Pauls feedback.

I then did some further research on case studies of interpersonal violence in elite sport for my introduction.

I found 2 famous cases linked below

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/aug/09/toni-minichiello-banned-for-life-by-uk-athletics-over-sexually-inappropriate-conduct

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/nov/28/nike-and-salazar-settle-20m-lawsuit-alleging-abuse-of-track-prodigy

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Toni Minichiello banned for life by UK Athletics over sexually inappropriate conduct

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Toni Minichiello, the coach who guided Jessica Ennis-Hill to gold at the London 2012 Olympics, has been banned for life from training athletes

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Started writing methods section

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Received feedback for my methods and then made any corrections and improvements.

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Had a group meeting with Paul regarding SPSS and data analysis.

We went through descriptive statistics and correlations.

I came out of this meeting feeling so much more confident and clearer on what my results section should include.

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I sent Paul an email containing any remaining questions I had on my introduction and methods section. They included:

Whether I can reference the guardian newspaper in the way I had

checking my research question nicely follows on from my literature review

Checking the scale that one of my studies (Parent et al., 2021) used was the same as the one we used

Checking whether someone (Marsh et al., 2010) can validate his own scale.

Checking that the measures of wellbeing and illbeing in this study are depression, self-esteem and vitality

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Asked Paul a question to confirm the measures of wellbeing and ill-being for this study were depression vitality and self esteem. He confirmed I was correct

We received our data set today so could begin data analysis and begin our results section

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Ran my descriptive statistics (mean, standard deviation, min and max), Pearsons correlation, and linear regression analysis on SPSS.

I then collated all this data and made all 7 of my tables and inserted them into the results section of my dissertation. I added titles and brief descriptions

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I made a discussion plan then completed my discussion section involving:

a brief summary of my findings in relation to aims and hypothesis

compared my findings to those of previous studies

explained my findings in relation to scientific principles- in my case I used self determination theory and social learning theory

gave implications and applications of findings

finally I gave strengths and weaknesses of my study and gave some ideas I had for future research based on the current study

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Wrote my conclusion giving an overview of my main findings that psychological violence from another athlete is significantly positively correlated with depression and significantly negatively correlated with self-esteem. I gave key implications and finished with a brief suggestion for future research

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Wrote my abstract including a brief introduction, methods, finding and conclusion.

I completed my reference list and then sent the draft to Paul.

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I received feedback from Paul on my discussion and results sections.

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I added another table to my results section which showed the percentage of participants experiencing each type of violence. Percentages are above which I worked out on SPSS prior to making my table using frequencies. These percentages could then also be compared with those of previous studies in my discussion.

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I completed all my discussion and results section improvement following a checklist based on Pauls feedback

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Final teams meeting with last minute questions which I wrote down prior to the meeting. The main concern and question I had was about my Crombach alpha test of internal reliability.

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Discussed Cronbach alpha calculations on teams with Paul and then added them to table 1 of my results.

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Was 100 words over the word count so then I reduced the word count and did some word count calculations to check I was within it.

My final word count = 8185

-35 for the title page

-138 for table 1 and its title

-37 for table 2 and its title

-35 for table 3 and its title

-35 for table 4 and its title

-35 for table 5 and its title

-35 for table 6 and its title

-35 for table 7 and its title

-35 for table 8 and its title

-1139 for references

-60 for appendices

= 6566

= max word count is 6600 (6000 + 10%)

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Handed in dissertation!!

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Dissertation due