Bio -psycho-social-spiritual Assessment Model

Creating the Survey Draft

Introduction

Prejudice involves an incorrect or unjustified attitude that tends to be negative towards a person or a group of people based on their social groups. On the other hand, discrimination involves different behaviors and actions, usually negative, towards people based on their social class, race, sex, and other factors. Prejudice and discrimination have become common issues in most communities. The impacts of these behaviors tend to affect specific groups of people in significant and negative ways. To solve these issues, there is a need to focus on understanding different factors that influence and contribute to people engaging in such behaviors to develop effective and reliable measures to limit and prevent them. Although prejudice and discrimination come in different forms, their impacts on people and society, in general, are significant. Understanding people’s views and understanding of these attitudes or behaviors can therefore help to understand how best these issues can be approached, thus improving relationships between people within any society (Huo, 2020).

Therefore, this survey will focus on prejudice and discrimination with the primary aim of collecting people’s views and ideas on such behaviors and, most importantly, what participants believe will be the best solutions towards the issue.

Open-ended Questions

1. What are specific behaviors and actions that you believe contribute to problems of prejudice and discrimination?
2. If you have an opportunity to educate people on the issue of prejudice and discrimination, what one thing that you could do different?
3. What have you done so far to try address this issue?
4. What are some negative impacts associated with discrimination and prejudice?
5. What are some possible solutions and responses to prejudice and discrimination?
6. What organizations are available to help people solve such problems?

Close-ended Questions (select only one option response)

1. Have you ever been affected by prejudice or discrimination?
2. Yes
3. No
4. To what extent do you believe people are affected by prejudice and discrimination?
5. Not sure
6. Very often
7. Often
8. Neutral
9. Low
10. Very low
11. Do you believe communities have not done enough to address this issue?
12. Yes
13. Not sure
14. No
15. Is the issue preventable?
16. Yes
17. Not sure
18. No
19. How effective are you in addressing possible situations involved prejudice and discrimination?
20. Very effective
21. Effective
22. Neutral
23. Poor
24. Do you believe gender differences influence the rate of discrimination and prejudice between men and women?
25. Yes
26. No 

Nominal Questions (you may select more than one option)

1. What institutions are available within the community and help in dealing with issues of discrimination and prejudice?
2. Law enforcements
3. Community leaders
4. Churches
5. Schools
6. What considerations are used by people to engage in prejudice and discriminatory behaviors?
7. Race
8. Social groups
9. Sex
10. Friendship
11. Family
12. culture
13. What are some best solutions that people can use to address issues of prejudice and discrimination?
14. Educating people
15. Accepting each other
16. Improving respect between people
17. Valuing other people culture and social backgrounds

Likert Scale Questions

How strong do you agree with the following statements?

1. Solving prejudice and discrimination is easy and effective.
2. Strongly disagree
3. Somewhat disagree
4. Neither agree nor disagree
5. Somewhat agree
6. Strongly agree              
7. How satisfied are you with current measures focused on addressing the issue?
   1. Very dissatisfied
   1. Somewhat dissatisfied
   1. Slightly dissatisfied
   1. Neither satisfied nor dissatisfied
   1. Slightly satisfied
   1. Somewhat satisfied
   1. Very satisfied        

References

Huo, Y. (2020). Prejudice and discrimination. Together apart: The psychology of COVID-19, 113-118.