Compare the Strengths and Weaknesses of Quantitative and Qualitative Research
Compare the strengths and weaknesses of quantitative and qualitative research. Illustrate your answer with appropriate research situations.
Introduction
There are two board research approaches: called qualitative and quantitative research. The writer is going to compare the strengths and weaknesses of both two research approach by introducing two different research papers both related to elder abuse. The content of a qualitative research “Elder Abuse and Mistreatment in Residential Settings” (Radka and Kateřina, 2009) (qualitative study) and a quantitative research “Proclivity to Elder Abuse, A community Study on Hong Kong Chinese” (Elsie and Catherine, 2003) (quantitative study) are being discussed and the related strengths and weaknesses of two different research approaches are reflected in this assignment.
Qualitative Research
A suitable approach to describe and to interpret
“The strengths of qualitative research derive primarily from its inductive approach, it focus on specific situation or people.” One of the five particular research purposes of qualitative studies is to understand the particular context of informants act and the influence of it. And this approach preserve the individuality that can helps researchers understand how events, actions and meaning are shaped by the unique circumstances. (Maxwell, 1996, p.17)
According to Berg (2004, p.7), qualitative approach provide the means for researchers accessing unquantifiable facts of the informants.
The aim of the qualitative study was to describe employees’ and clients’ lived experiences of older abuse. It is a suitable for the researchers to use a phenomenological approach in the study.
Stan (1999, p.1) wrote “Phenomenological methods are particularly effective at bringing to the fore the experiences and perceptions of individuals from their own perspectives, and therefore at challenging structural or normative assumptions. Adding an interpretive dimension to
Introduction
There are two board research approaches: called qualitative and quantitative research. The writer is going to compare the strengths and weaknesses of both two research approach by introducing two different research papers both related to elder abuse. The content of a qualitative research “Elder Abuse and Mistreatment in Residential Settings” (Radka and Kateřina, 2009) (qualitative study) and a quantitative research “Proclivity to Elder Abuse, A community Study on Hong Kong Chinese” (Elsie and Catherine, 2003) (quantitative study) are being discussed and the related strengths and weaknesses of two different research approaches are reflected in this assignment.
Qualitative Research
A suitable approach to describe and to interpret
“The strengths of qualitative research derive primarily from its inductive approach, it focus on specific situation or people.” One of the five particular research purposes of qualitative studies is to understand the particular context of informants act and the influence of it. And this approach preserve the individuality that can helps researchers understand how events, actions and meaning are shaped by the unique circumstances. (Maxwell, 1996, p.17)
According to Berg (2004, p.7), qualitative approach provide the means for researchers accessing unquantifiable facts of the informants.
The aim of the qualitative study was to describe employees’ and clients’ lived experiences of older abuse. It is a suitable for the researchers to use a phenomenological approach in the study.
Stan (1999, p.1) wrote “Phenomenological methods are particularly effective at bringing to the fore the experiences and perceptions of individuals from their own perspectives, and therefore at challenging structural or normative assumptions. Adding an interpretive dimension to