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| Title: | Quantitative and qualitative approaches in the study of poverty and adolescent development : separation or integration? | Authors: | Leung, JTY Shek, DTL |
Issue Date: | Jun-2011 | Source: | International journal of adolescent medicine and health, June 2011, v. 23, no. 2, p. 115-121 | 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. | Keywords: | Adolescent development Economic disadvantage Family processes Qualitative study Quantitative study |
Publisher: | Walter de Gruyter GmbH | Journal: | International journal of adolescent medicine and health | ISSN: | 0334-0139 | EISSN: | 2191-0278 | DOI: | 10.1515/IJAMH.2011.020 | Rights: | ©2011 by Walter de Gruyter. The journal web site is located at http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/ijamh |
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