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Dimensions of Desire: Bridging Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in a Study of Female Adolescent Sexuality
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This study provides an example of how feminist psychology can bridge qualitative and quantitative methods while keeping lived experience at the center of an inquiry. The goal of the study was to begin to understand adolescent girls' experiences of sexual desire. We describe three separate and synergistically related analyses of interviews with 30 adolescent girls. We begin with a qualitative analysis of their voiced experiences of sexual desire; follow with a quantitative analysis of the differences in how urban and suburban girls describe these experiences, assessing the role of reported sexual violation; and conclude with a second qualitative analysis exploring the interaction between social location and reported sexual violation. These three analyses enabled us to understand qualitatively and to quantify interrelated dimensions of desire as described by adolescent girls.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Tolman, D. L., & Szalacha, L. A.
- Affiliations
- Wellesley College (US)
- Corresponding author
- Tolman, Deborah L.
- Venue
- Psychology of Women Quarterly
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 1999-03
- Volume
- 23
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 7-39
- ISSN
- 0361-6843 (ISSN-L)
- 1471-6402
- OpenAlex
- W2108991306
- Cited by
- 151
- References
- 74
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2024: 1 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 5 · 2015: 7 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 9 · 2012: 9
- FWCI
- 28.69
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Psychology of Women Quarterly (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender and Feminist Studies
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Keywords
- sexual desire, adolescent girls, feminist psychology, sexual violation, social location, lived experience, qualitative-quantitative integration
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