Journal Entries & T-AccountsACT300 Principles of Accounting IModule 2: Critical Thinking Template Option #1Journal EntriesDateAccount NameT-AccountsJanuaryDebitCredit1CashCapital Stock23BalanceBalance4Accounts ReceivableAccounts Payable5BalanceBalance6Equipment7BalanceSupplies8BalanceRevenueBalanceRent ExpenseBalanceUnadjusted Trial BalanceAccount NameDebitCreditCash- 0Accounts receivable- 0Equipment- 0Supplies- 0Accounts payable- 0Capital stock- 0Revenue- 0Rent expense- 0 Total- 0- 0 Unadjusted Trial BalanceACT300 Principles of Accounting IModule 2: Critical Thinking Template Option #1Unadjusted Trial Balance[NAME OF COMPANY]Unadjusted Trial Balance[DATE]Account balancesAccountDebitCreditCashAccounts receivableEquipmentSuppliesAccounts payableCapital stockRevenueRent expense Totals$ -$ - Bethany Fulcher Professor Custer Sociology 101 7/22/2018 Summary of an Academic Journal Article The journal that I have decided to research served to answer the question of, to what extent are young adults engaging in “Relationship Work” with a partner and with a friend?”. These researchers focused on the differences that these behaviors caused within creating a functioning relationship that lasts within young couples. They decided to focus on dating couples because of a previous article about married couples that stated that relationships are greatly affected by outside factors like friends and family because they can influence the individual to believe that their status is either good or bad, (Proulx, Helms & Payne). This made the researchers believe there was still a piece missing in the study and that piece was young and fresh relationships. They wanted to know how this relationship work could change the overall wellbeing of that couple and how happy the two individuals were within it. Before they surveyed the individuals, the authors came up with a few hypotheses. The first hypothesis that they explored was that females would be more willing to talk to their friends about relationship problems than their partners and that males would be the exact opposite, talking to their significant others more than their friends. The second hypothesis that they believed would be true is that unlike the study that observed older couples, younger relationships would struggle greatly if they were talking to their friends more than each other. This was assumed because the artists realized that older people tend to pick friends that would be more supportive of their relationships while younger people choose friends that trend to have information that can be “incorrect, misleading, and unsupportive.”(Jensen & Rauer). The main factor that they were testing, or the dependent variable, was a combination of three different areas: happiness, commitment, and relationship quality. They used the quantitative method of surveying to sample individuals that both volunteered and were convenient to the authors. In other words, the researchers put out a questionnaire as ext.

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Bethany Fulcher
Professor Custer
Sociology 101
7/22/2018
Summary of an Academic Journal Article
The journal that I have decided to research served to answer the
question of, to what extent are young adults engaging in
“Relationship Work” with a partner and with a friend?”. These
researchers focused on the differences that these behaviors
caused within creating a functioning relationship that lasts
within young couples. They decided to focus on dating couples
because of a previous article about married couples that stated
that relationships are greatly affected by outside factors like
friends and family because they can influence the individual to
believe that their status is either good or bad, (Proulx, Helms &

2. Payne). This made the researchers believe there was still a piece
missing in the study and that piece was young and fresh
relationships. They wanted to know how this relationship work
could change the overall wellbeing of that couple and how
happy the two individuals were within it.
Before they surveyed the individuals, the authors came up with
a few hypotheses. The first hypothesis that they explored was
that females would be more willing to talk to their friends about
relationship problems than their partners and that males would
be the exact opposite, talking to their significant others more
than their friends. The second hypothesis that they believed
would be true is that unlike the study that observed older
couples, younger relationships would struggle greatly if they
were talking to their friends more than each other. This was
assumed because the artists realized that older people tend to
pick friends that would be more supportive of their relationships
while younger people choose friends that trend to have
information that can be “incorrect, misleading, and
unsupportive.”(Jensen & Rauer).
The main factor that they were testing, or the dependent
variable, was a combination of three different areas: happiness,
commitment, and relationship quality. They used the
quantitative method of surveying to sample individuals that
both volunteered and were convenient to the authors. In other
words, the researchers put out a questionnaire as extra credit at
a university in the south. With the three areas mentioned earlier,
the survey had scales that the young individual could pick
whether where they found themselves feeling when answering
the question. Since they used the survey method to research
these students, it was easier to study a large amount of people,
but it really depends on the student being honest with their
answers. The fact that they used two sampling techniques
provided them with the opportunity to easily get a wider net of
people taking this survey, but for the most part it was very
biased information, (Lecture 4).
After they analyzed all the results, they realized that

3. surprisingly the amount of relationship work done from the
female is the same as the male in the relationship. This was
shocking because in earlier studies that they had read about,
females are more romantically expressive than males but this
showed otherwise. This could be because the sample was faulty
and that most of the males that took it seemed to be happy and
committed to their partners, leading to them being more
expressive to their partner and their friends about that
relationship. To answer the actual research question, results
have shown that partners, who talk to each other about their
problems more than other people, are proven to have an increase
in happiness, commitment, and relationship quality. Young
couples that talked to friends more struggled a lot with their
relationship and didn’t deal with problems in the right way.
Interestingly, studies showed that the relationship can still
thrive and is even sometimes better off when the couple does
relationship work with each other instead of doing both and
talking to others.
I have already stated some limitations to this survey, but there
are more involving the sample that was collected to take the
questionnaire. One big issue was that most of the participants
were female. Only 23% of the people were male, so the analysis
of this data could be biased or not completely right for all types
of men out there. The other major factor that limits this research
is that the sample mainly consisted of Caucasian people which
means that the results does not include a variety of cultures and
traditions to be involved, (Shook, Jones, & Forehand).
To wrap it up, the researchers, Jakob F. Jensen and Amy J.
Rauer, put together a questionnaire to further investigate how
relationship work behaviors relates to romantic functioning.
They did this by surveying young individuals in relationships
and seeing how happy they were depending on if they talked
mainly to their significant other about problems, or their closest
friends. They found that those who worked their problems out
with the partner instead of talking to their friends, were the
happiest in their relationships and were committed to it.

4. Works Cited:
Jensen, Jakob F. & Rauer, Amy J. (2014). Turning inward
versus outward: Relationship work in young adults and romantic
functioning. Personal Relationships, 21, 451-467.
Shook, S. E., Jones, D. J., & Forehand, R. ( 2010 ). The
mother‐coparent relationship and youth adjustment: A study of
African‐American single‐mother families. Journal of Family
Psychology, 24, 243 – 251.
Proulx, C. M., Helms, H. M., & Payne, C. C. ( 2004 ). Wives'
domain specific “marriage work” with friends and spouses:
Links to marital quality. Family Relations, 53, 393 – 404
Thor Coleman
Dr. Custer
Sociology 101
7/22/2018
Nonsuicidal self-injury (or NSSI for short) has become
increasingly more prevalent in today's society among
adolescents. Nonsuicidal self-injury is the intentional cause of
harm to oneself without the intention of causing death. Studies
on the frequency of NSSI have been conducted in other
developed nations and the majority of them have been clinical
studies. Before this study, many of the data points surrounding
NSSI and its recurrence within the United States has been
unclear. The purpose of this study was to provide larger,
representative, nonclinical samples of NSSI in populations of
high school students across the United States as well as look for
differing data between genders. The study also attempted to find
correlations between other health risk behaviors such as drug
abuse and NSSI.
Much of the previous literature has described nonsuicidal self-
injury as on the rise, but these claims have “tended to rely on

5. data collected before 2012” (Monto, McRee, Deryck, 2015).
Most of the past research has also been clinical research as well
as using convenience sampling. This means the sampling of the
participants of past experiments was possibly much more biased
and data points could have been negatively impacted. The
current study wanted to build off of the past literature and move
towards a larger more representative sample of NSSI prevalence
among high school age students.
The researchers did not clearly state one way or another what
their hypothesis might be. However there are independent and
dependent variables in this experiment. Multiple variables were
tested in this experiment, so there is not just one independent
variable. Examples of possible independent variables are drug
abuse, sexual abuse as well as depression or attempted suicide.
The dependent variable however is always going to be
frequency of NSSI. A possible hypothesis that one could make
is that as someone who has more suicidal thoughts than
someone else will more often experience NSSI symptoms. Many
different variables were tested against the prevalence on NSSI
as the survey that was given to participants included many
different questions to quantify youth behavior.
The questionnaire that was given to participants is titled the
Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS)and was
created by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. A
question was specifically added to this test to measure rates of
NSSI in a population. The question asked was ““during the past
12 months, how many times did you do something to purposely
hurt yourself without wanting to die, such as cutting or burning
yourself on purpose?” (Monto, McRee, Deryck, 2015). This is a
survey which utilizes quantitative methods and multiple choice
questions to measure youth risk behavior. Some of the perks of
this methodology include being able to study basic traits of
large groups with relative ease and can study observable traits
easier. However, some of the weaknesses of this process include

6. the fact that the questions are all standardized, the answers are
all self reported and question wording can be confusing at
times.
This study utilized convenience sampling as the survey
containing the researchers extra question was given to students
in classes from 11 different states. Some of the perks for using
this method include its ease of use factor as well as being
convenient, as stated in the name. One of the major cons
however include its large possibilities for bias.
This study procured many interesting findings. First of all, there
were 64,671 respondents to their survey. 32,150 of those
respondents were male while 32,521 were female. A little over
52 percent of the total respondents identified themselves as
white or caucasian. When it came to frequency of NSSI within
the population, “17.59% of respondents reported at least 1 non
suicidal self-injurious act during the previous 12 months”
(Monto, McRee, Deryck, 2015). Female adolescents were
reported twice as likely to take part in self-injurious acts than
their male counterparts (23.8% for female and 11.3% for male).
The study also noted that NSSI frequency seemingly declined as
age increased. Rates of NSSI fluctuated from 19.4% from 14
year old respondents to 14.7% for 18 year old respondents. The
research provides “ convincing evidence that NSSI is relatively
common among American adolescents and may be carried out
by more than 1 in 10 high-school–aged boys and about 1 in 4
high-school–aged girls in a given year” (Monto, McRee,
Deryck, 2015).
There were a few limitations discussed near the end of the study
by the authors. First and foremost, the questions do not measure
severity of individuals NSSI experiences, only measured if they
occurred. The YRBSS also does not ask about other possible
factors that could be correlated with NSSI including familial
dynamics. The data in this study is also described by the authors

7. as cross sectional, meaning they can help indicate correlation
but not causation between NSSI and other health risk behaviors.
References:
Custer, L. (2018). Research Process [PowerPoint slides].
Retrieved from
https://cascadia.instructure.com/courses/1628362/files/1005465
13?module_item_id=29316694
Monto, M. A., McRee, N., & Deryck, F. S. (2018). Nonsuicidal
self-injury among a representative sample of US adolescents,
2015.
American Journal of Public Health, 108(8), 1042-1048.
doi:10.2105/AJPH.2018.304470