Department of Applied Psychology, New York University, New York, New York, USA.
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Medical College of WI, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
Am J Community Psychol. 2023 Dec;72(3-4):355-365. doi: 10.1002/ajcp.12703. Epub 2023 Oct 3.
Mixed methods research (MMR) combines multiple traditions, methods, and worldviews to enrich research design and interpretation of data. In this virtual special issue, we highlight the use of MMR within the field of community psychology. The first MMR studies appeared in flagship community psychology journals over 30 years ago (in 1991). To explore the uses of MMR in the field, we first review existing literature by identifying all papers appearing in either Journal of Community Psychology or American Journal of Community Psychology in which the word "mixed" appeared. A total of 88 publications were identified. Many of these papers illustrate the pragmatic use of MMR to evaluate programs and to answer different research questions using different methods. We coded articles based on Green et al.'s classifications of the purpose of the mixing: triangulation, development, complementarity, expansion, and initiation. Complementarity was the most frequently used purpose (46.6% of articles), and nearly a quarter of articles mixed for multiple purposes (23.86%). We also coded for any community psychology values advanced by the use of mixed methods. We outline three themes here with corresponding exemplars. These articles illustrate how MMR can highlight ecological analysis and reconsider dominant, individual-level paradigms; center participant and community member experiences; and unpack paradoxes to increase the usefulness of research findings.
混合方法研究（MMR）结合了多种传统、方法和世界观，以丰富研究设计和数据解释。在这个虚拟特刊中，我们强调了 MMR 在社区心理学领域的应用。第一个 MMR 研究出现在 30 多年前的旗舰社区心理学期刊上（1991 年）。为了探索 MMR 在该领域的应用，我们首先通过识别出现在《社区心理学杂志》或《美国社区心理学杂志》中出现“混合”一词的所有论文，来回顾现有的文献。共确定了 88 篇出版物。其中许多论文说明了 MMR 的实际应用，用于评估项目以及使用不同的方法回答不同的研究问题。我们根据 Green 等人对混合目的的分类对文章进行了编码：三角测量、发展、互补、扩展和启动。互补是最常用的目的（46.6%的文章），近四分之一的文章混合使用了多种目的（23.86%）。我们还对使用混合方法推进的任何社区心理学价值观进行了编码。我们在这里概述了三个主题，并附有相应的范例。这些文章说明了 MMR 如何突出生态分析和重新考虑主导的、个体层面的范式；关注参与者和社区成员的经验；并揭示悖论以增加研究结果的有用性。
