My research is based on the dynamics and interworkings of my own family so all of my participants are going to be from my family. The main participants will be my immediate family such as: my mother, father, and stepfather. However, I will also interview my grandparents and possibly my aunts and uncles. The focus of my research is on my family so the participants are all going to be a part of my family but most likely they will be blood related. The interviews are going to be long and personal so I don’t need too many participants but I will need the key participants to sit down for an interview with me.
My participants will not be in any physical danger if I interview them but the questions are personal and very in-depth so someone could feel emotionally damaged. Unfortunately, I’m the researcher and I have a personal relationship with everyone of my participants so their answers might be falsified or skewed. They might not want me to know the answers to the questions or they feel that their privacy is being violated. In order to protect their privacy I’m going to change the names in my paper.
