All answers should be based on the article below. Thomas, L., Orme, E., and Kerrigan, F. (2020). Student Loneliness: The Role of Social Media Through Life Transitions. Computers & Education, Vol. 146, No. 103754. pp.1-11. ................

1. Explain the motivation and purpose of this study.

2. Describe and compare the aims of descriptive research and explanatory research. Is this study descriptive research or explanatory research? Explain the reason for the answer.

3. Explain the hypotheses of this research. Explain all that applies and identify the independent and dependent variables in the hypotheses.

4. Explain the operational definitions of each variable in this study.

5. Explain what the population is and describe the population of this study.

6. Explain what random sampling is. Does this study use random sampling? Explain why or why not they use random sampling.

7. Explain the data generation method used in this study. Discuss whether the method used in this study is appropriate and why.

8. Describe the difference between descriptive and inferential statistics. Explain the results of descriptive and inferential statistics from this study.