商品簡介
This guide walks undergraduate and graduate students through Q methodological research, which favors the first-person perspectives of its participants. The first section of the book offers a historical and theoretical context for Q methodology. Section 2 explains how to set up, conduct, and analyze Q methodological research, encompassing single- and multiple-participant designs. This section provides statistical and conceptual explanations of factor extraction and factor rotation; it also includes discussion of software packages, useful equations, and alternative extraction methods. The last section covers factor interpretation and writing and publishing Q methodological papers. Appendices offer about 30 pages of instructions and crib sheets. Watts teaches psychology at Nottingham Trent University. Stenner teaches social psychology at the UK's Open University. Annotation Ac2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
