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Using focus groups to facilitate culturally anchored research
Abstract
Scholars have acknowledged the need to anchor scientific knowledge about social and psychological processes in the norms, values, and experiences of the partticular population under study. This article describes how focus groups can be incorporated into the planning stages of a research pogram to facilitate these goals. After a brief overview of teh central components of focus group research, and example from a program of research involving dual‐earner African American families is used to as an illustration. The article describes how (a) the identification of cultural knowledge and (b)access to the language participants use to think and talk about a topic can help researchers formulate a conceptual framework, identify important constructs, and develop appropriate instruments for assessing constructs. Some strengths and limitations of focus group research are discussed.
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“There is an extensive literature, ranging from academic classics in grounded theory to pragmatic “how to do” books, that teaches novices how focus groups are usually conducted and indicates how to organise focus groups and how to analyse the data, often within a restricted budget and time span [2,4-6,12-17].”
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- Hughes, D., & DuMont, K.
- Venue
- American Journal of Community Psychology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 1993-12
- Volume
- 21
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 775-806
- ISSN
- 0091-0562 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-2770
- OpenAlex
- W2048999043
- Cited by
- 433
- References
- 2
- FWCI
- 19.96
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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