| Description |
1 online resource |
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SAGE Research Methods. Cases. Part 2 |
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SAGE Research Methods. Cases. Part 2
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| Summary |
As a graduate student, I became interested in understanding how people talk with their friends and family when they want to lose weight. Talking about a desire to lose weight can be quite difficult, but previous research has made a very strong case for the importance of receiving social support from friends and family in achieving success when attempting to lose weight. The bulk of this research, however, focused on social support received through a doctor- or researcher-supervised intervention. For most people, this type of support is not very common, and instead, they rely on social support from their friends and family to try and achieve their goals. This case study provides an account of how I recruited individuals dealing with a sensitive issue (their desire to lose weight) to participate in the study as well as how I conducted in-depth interviews with participants to understand their efforts to get their friends and family to support them when trying to lose weight. This case sheds light on the advantages and challenges of using in-depth interviews to collect data about a relatively understudied topic and how researchers can preemptively manage some of these challenges through careful research design and implementation. Particular attention is paid to the creation of the interview protocol as well as the use of probing to elicit more information from participants |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on XML content |
| Subject |
Encouragement -- Research -- Case studies.
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Interviewing -- Research -- Case studies.
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Weight loss -- Research -- Case studies.
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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Case studies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1526419343 |
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9781526419347 (ebook) |
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