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

• Autore: Massé Raymond
• Pubblicazione: Chicoutimi, Quebec : , : J.-M. Tremblay, , 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Disciplina: 150.72
• Soggetto topico: Psychology - Research - Methodology
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Qualitative and quantitative analyses of psychological distress methodological complementarity and ontological incommensurability
• ISBN: 1-4123-7110-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910132727203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Classiques des sciences sociales ; ; 3888.