Spirituality as Foundation for Adolescents’ Socialisation: Methodological Approaches

Parents' Union Dissolution and Adolescents' School Performance: Comparing Methodological Approaches.

We use data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health and the Adolescent Health and Academic Achievement Study to estimate how parents' union dissolution influences changes in adolescents' mathematics course work gains, overall grade point average, and course failure rates during a window of approximately 1 year (N = 2,629). A primary purpose of this study is demonstrating the u...

A new foundation for methodological triangulation.

PURPOSE To show how triangulation with qualitative and quantitative methods can help confirm a theory to a greater degree than can either method alone. CONSTRUCT: Coherence view of theory structure and confirmation. Evidence helps confirm a theory if the theory is the most coherent way of accounting for the evidence, and one theory is more coherent than another insofar as it leaves fewer unansw...

Invoking the Feigner in Us Methodological Approaches for Investigating Deception in fMRI Setting

　The attempt to find out if someone is telling a lie has been of human's interest. One of the techniques which is believed to be efficient in future is fMRI (functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging), using which the changes of regional blood flow during the designed paradigm can be recorded. This method has been considered as a better technique for studying lie and deception. For investigating th...

Children as Secondary Socialisation Agents for their Parents

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the body of knowledge associated with consumer socialisation. We investigate how children function as socialisation agents for their parents in influencing their purchase intentions of computer and high-tech products – essentially the idea of the young educating the old. Design/methodology/approach – A review of the extant literature relat...

Editorial: Methodological Approaches for Quantitative Nursing Research