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Motivation in Research: Hypothesis-Testing Research Studies)

The document discusses the purpose and objectives of research. The main purpose of research is to discover unknown truths through scientific procedures. Research objectives generally fall into four broad categories: exploratory research to gain familiarity with a phenomenon; descriptive research to accurately portray characteristics of individuals, situations, or groups; diagnostic research to determine frequency of occurrences or associations; and hypothesis-testing research to test causal relationships between variables. Motivations for undertaking research include the desire for career advancement, intellectual challenge, service to society, and respect. Research can also be motivated by government directives, employment conditions, curiosity, and the desire to understand causal relationships. The basic types of research are descriptive research like surveys to describe current states, and analytical research which uses logic

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Motivation in Research: Hypothesis-Testing Research Studies)

The document discusses the purpose and objectives of research. The main purpose of research is to discover unknown truths through scientific procedures. Research objectives generally fall into four broad categories: exploratory research to gain familiarity with a phenomenon; descriptive research to accurately portray characteristics of individuals, situations, or groups; diagnostic research to determine frequency of occurrences or associations; and hypothesis-testing research to test causal relationships between variables. Motivations for undertaking research include the desire for career advancement, intellectual challenge, service to society, and respect. Research can also be motivated by government directives, employment conditions, curiosity, and the desire to understand causal relationships. The basic types of research are descriptive research like surveys to describe current states, and analytical research which uses logic

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The purpose of research is to discover answers to questions through the application of scientific

procedures. The main aim of research is to find out the truth which is hidden and which has not been
discovered as yet. Though each research study has its own specific purpose, we may think of
research objectives as falling into a number of following broad groupings:
1. To gain familiarity with a phenomenon or to achieve new insights into it (studies with this
object in view are termed as exploratory or formulative research studies);
2. To portray accurately the characteristics of a particular individual, situation or a group
(studies with this object in view are known as descriptive research studies);
3. To determine the frequency with which something occurs or with which it is associated
with something else (studies with this object in view are known as diagnostic research
studies);
4. To test a hypothesis of a causal relationship between variables (such studies are known as
hypothesis-testing research studies).

MOTIVATION IN RESEARCH

What makes people to undertake research? This is a question of fundamental importance. The
possible motives for doing research may be either one or more of the following:
1. Desire to get a research degree along with its consequential benefits;
2. Desire to face the challenge in solving the unsolved problems, i.e., concern over practical
problems initiates research;
3. Desire to get intellectual joy of doing some creative work;
4. Desire to be of service to society;
5. Desire to get respectability.
However, this is not an exhaustive list of factors motivating people to undertake research studies.
Many more factors such as directives of government, employment conditions, curiosity about new
things, desire to understand causal relationships, social thinking and awakening, and the like may as
well motivate (or at times compel) people to perform research operations.

TYPES OF RESEARCH

The basic types of research are as follows:


(i) Descriptive vs. Analytical: Descriptive research includes surveys and fact-finding enquiries
of different kinds. The major purpose of descriptive research is description of the state of
affairs as it exists at present. In social science and business research we quite often use

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