THE EMPTY ROOM

EXPERIMENT

Research Strategy (The Empty Room Experiment)

The empty room forms the psychological bedrock of this research. The concept of the empty room was chosen as a factor not influenced by pertaining settings. Specifically, a standard empty two-bedroom house shall be used for the first part of the video experiment studies. Respondents shall be asked their opinion on the important household items that shall be used to fill up the rooms. This is to ascertain the influencers of items of priority versus non-prioritised items in a home setting.

The second part of video experiment shall concentrate on a two-bedroom house that is partially furnished. For the secondary video experiment, rooms or places where unpaid care and domestic work are performed shall not be furnished. Hence, the rooms or places shall be left empty.

The third part of the video experiment shall concentrate on interviews from guardians, traditional and cultural leaders, religious leaders, marriage counsellors, teachers, peers, heads of families, societal groups, opinion leaders and the general public in relation to unpaid care and domestic work. 

To appreciate the influencers of unpaid care and domestic work from all dimensions, the content of the following channels, as based on categories such as radio, television, signages, online content, academic discourse community discipline content and activities such as cultural, religious and state proceedings and would be reviewed.

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