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Record Nr.

UNINA9910132727203321

Autore

Massé Raymond

Titolo

Qualitative and quantitative analyses of psychological distress methodological complementarity and ontological incommensurability / / Raymond Massé

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicoutimi, Quebec : , : J.-M. Tremblay, , 2009

ISBN

1-4123-7110-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Classiques des sciences sociales ; ; 3888

Disciplina

150.72

Soggetti

Psychology - Research - Methodology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS OF WHAT PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTRESS MEANS IN A NONCLINICAL POPULATION -- Distress as Language -- Idioms of Distress -- QUANTITATIVE METHODS FOR THE VALIDATION OF A PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTRESS MEASUREMENT SCALE -- DISCUSSION -- Quantification, Reification of Qualitative Constructs, and Loss of Meaning -- Convergent or Divergent Epistemologies -- Representational Dilemma -- A Politico-Representational Crisis -- Ontological and Teleological Incommensurabilities : Toward a Paradigm of Tolerance -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES.

Sommario/riassunto

Rigorous qualitative and quantitative methodologies have been used for the development of a multidimensional scale dedicated to the measurement of psychological distress. A comparison between the idioms of distress or the cultural forms through which French Quebecois express their distress (qualitative constructs) and the nonorthogonal factors derived from explanatory and higher order factorial analyses (quantitative constructs) illustrates the possibilities of complementarity between qualitative and quantitative approaches. The comparison shows that these two operationalizations of the concept of psychological distress are founded on incommensurable representations of distress. This article concludes that this representational dilemma of distress as a lived language or as an empirical reified entity leads to an ontological and a teleological incommensurability.