Leung Janet T Y, Shek Daniel T L
Department of Applied Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, PR China.
Int J Adolesc Med Health. 2011;23(2):115-21. doi: 10.1515/ijamh.2011.020.
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.
本文探讨运用定量和定性方法来研究经济劣势对家庭关系及青少年发展的影响。定量研究具有客观性、良好的预测和解释力、简约性、精确性以及分析的复杂性等优点。相比之下，定性研究能提供对社会现实的详细、全面、深入理解，并能揭示新的见解。出于对方法适用性、设计灵活性以及对研究问题的情境响应性等实际考量，混合方法可能是整合定量和定性方法的一种途径，为研究经济劣势对家庭关系及青少年发展的影响提供了另一种策略。
