the aprap

Greetings participants, thank you all for taking time off to participate in this study! Before you begin, my team and I will have to brief you about this study.

We are a group of Year 2 students from Diploma in Psychology Studies and we are conducting this research for our Applied Psychology Research Project A module. In this study, we are investigating the relations between family harmony and your opinions and attitudes towards elderly in general.
You are required to answer a four part questionnaire that will require some demographic information, evaluating your family harmony, opinions and attitudes towards the elderly in your family and elderly in general. We require your honest opinions about the ageing population in Singapore.

We will guarantee your confidentiality and security for your responses to this questionnaire. Your responses and data will be compiled and be distributed to members of my team and my supervisor for research purposes. In the questionnaire you will be taking, you will not be required to identify yourself or provide personal information except your age, hence making sure that you stay anonymous. Three years after the research is over, we will delete all data and information related to the research to ensure security.

If you feel uncomfortable at any point during this questionnaire, you can choose to withdraw from this study by closing the page! :-)

The estimated time taken to complete this study is 40-45 minutes. You have come to the end of the briefing. If you have any questions about this research, you can email our supervisor at [email protected].

Firstly, your interest in participating in our research study is highly appreciated by the research team. Your involvement in the study is on a voluntary basis, do not feel obliged to continue if you were to experience any discomfort during the study. At any point of time, if you were to feel uncomfortable, please approach any of the research team members.

All personal information linked to your data response will not be exposed. Once confidential, all data may be made available to researchers via accessible data repositories and possibly used for novel purposes. Data access is restricted to only research team members and the research study supervisor. Please ensure you have provided your signature and date on this document, to indicate you have accepted and understood the conditions for participating in this study.

For further enquiries, you may contact our research team.

Supervisor: Gabrielle Lai ([email protected])

Principal Investigator: Ng Ping Siang ([email protected])

I voluntarily participate in the research study as stated above.

I am aware of my right to withdraw from the research study, without any penalty or having to give a reason for my withdrawal.

I Agree

In our study, we want to find out if family harmony affect young people’s positive and negative opinion on their elderly family members, then how does this affect their attitude towards elderly in general.
This questionnaire consists of 100 questions and will take about 15-20 minutes to complete. Please answer them truthfully based on the instructions given. Thank you for your time! :-)
Elderly refers to any family members above 65 years old. For example, Aunt, Uncle, Grand Aunt, Grand Uncle, Grandmother, or Grandfather etc

What is your residential status?

Singapore Resident

Permanent Resident

International Student

* What is your course of study

To what extent do you think that the growing number of older people in Singapore is a problem?

Thinking about yourself, are you confident that you will have an adequate standard of living in your old age?

* Who should bear the greatest responsibility for people’s economic well-being in their old age?