Quantitative and qualitative approaches in the study of poverty and adolescent development: separation or integration?
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Janet T.Y. Leung
Abstract
This paper examines the use of quantitative and qualitative approaches to study the impact of economic disadvantage on family processes and adolescent development. Quantitative research has the merits of objectivity, good predictive and explanatory power, parsimony, precision and sophistication of analysis. Qualitative research, in contrast, provides a detailed, holistic, in-depth understanding of social reality and allows illumination of new insights. With the pragmatic considerations of methodological appropriateness, design flexibility, and situational responsiveness in responding to the research inquiry, a mixed methods approach could be a possibility of integrating quantitative and qualitative approaches and offers an alternative strategy to study the impact of economic disadvantage on family processes and adolescent development.
©2011 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin Boston
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- Publisher's Note
- Publisher’s Note
- Editorial
- Advances in adolescent research in the Chinese culture: reflections and future research directions
- Review Articles
- Elder lifelong learning, intergenerational solidarity and positive youth development: the case of Hong Kong
- A methodological critique of parenting research in Hong Kong
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- Perceptions of older people among Chinese adolescents: conceptual and methodological issues
- Applications of interpretive and constructionist research methods in adolescent research: philosophy, principles and examples
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