Is this a kind of research that’d benefit from looking at behavior other than verbal self-report in a survey? There are probably many reasons why one would answer questions like these that would not correspond to their nonverbal behavior.

The idea of measuring intent to become a caregiver is a really interesting and unique construct! Your sample was quite young and that makes me curious about your mean and standard deviation for that particular measure. Did you find variability in people’s intent to become caregivers? Anecdotally, I feel that when I was in college many of my friends assumed they would have children one day but for those who didn’t have children, the change of intent came later in life. I was just wondering if you potentially had a restriction of range for intent to become a parent that made it hard to find the relationship with ACEs? I know you had too small of a sample size to do this, but I also wonder if looking at the relationship between ACEs and parenting style would become clearer if you looked at it only in people who had a high intent to become a primary caregiver.

Hi everybody! You guys did a great job on your presentation. I hadn’t really thought about how ACEs could affect parenting styles, so it was interesting to learn about the two are connected. It’s interesting that there’s a positive correlation between wanting to be a parent/caregiver & uninvolved parenting style. Maybe this is because they want to do the opposite of what their parents did by purposefully distancing themselves from their children out of love but it could negatively affect their child who doesn’t get the love and support they need.

HI Everyone! I really enjoyed learning about your project. I knew that ACEs affected people’s adult lives but never thought about it altering their decision on becoming a parent. Your mean age was quite young and your participants were college students. I wonder if the results of this study would change if your participants were older?

This topic is super interesting. The idea that the environment someone grows up in is the environment that they will create in the future makes a lot of sense. I feel as though the participants’ ages or the amount of education having an effect on whether or not they would have kids and what their style could change the results of this study. Perhaps if it was done on a broader scale with people from different areas of the community, or a higher number of ACEs, the study would have been significant. It would be interesting to see if certain variables change the outcome of the study since the basis of the idea makes sense.

Hey guys! I think your project is a really interesting question to study! My research methods group also focused on parenting styles, so it’s really fascinating to see how this topic associates with other areas of someone’s life and how it can affect their future! Based on your findings, do you think that the specific type of ACEs a person experienced has any affect on their future parenting styles and intent on being a caregiver? Or would you hypothesize that similar results would occur regardless of the particular ACEs a participant experienced growing up?

Hi everyone! I think this topic was very interesting. Even though the data was not significant, I still think it contributes to the question about which parenting style someone is more likely to have. Do you think experiencing a specific ACE could lead to different parenting styles? I think this was a great topic! Good job!

Hello everyone! Even though your results were not significant, this was still such important research! I still believe your hypotheses were important, and maybe a larger study would have given different results. I’m really interested in how the results of possible future studies turn out. Thanks for sharing such an interesting topic!

Hi Carrie, Sydney, Monica, and Camila, I really liked your presentation. Although your predictions were not supported by the results, this really helped to give insight on how a person’s childhood experience can affect a person. I think this research could have had a different outcome if there was a larger sample size.

I thought this study was very eye opening because I never thought that ACEs would have an effect on parenting. One idea that I had was increasing the age range to those who are ready to have children. I saw that your age range was mostly college students, so that might be an interesting change to research!

Hi! I think it was interesting that you decided to investigate the relationship between ACEs and parenting style. Why do you think the intention to have children and the uninvolved parenting style were correlated? And do you think increasing the ages of the sample size would have changed the outcome of the results?

I liked the way you guys did your methodology, using the questionnaires that you did was smart because they already are established and have backing in the psychological community as opposed to making your own questionnaire. Do you think that having a larger sample size of both men and women of different ages would have an effect on your results?

I really liked the research question and thought it was a very interesting topic to study. Do you think if you all were able to survey a more diverse group of people, whether it be more males or more minorities, that any of the results would have differed?