In: Psychology
What are the key characteristics of qualitative research?
The key characteristics of Qualittive research comes from its difference with Quantitative reserach.
1. Qualitative research would focus more on experiences of the person rather than scores in some test.
2. It provides an in-depth analysis of the data obtained.
3. The results from this research are hard to generalise on population; though it can be generalised to the specific sample characteristics population.
A diffeence between sample an dpopulation is that- population is larger number of people from which few samples are randomly chosen and the results from this population are then generalised to the population
4. Analysis of this data is more personal to the researcher as well as the participant, therefore biases from the side of researcher can occur majorly here.
5. This research can also be used to develop a new theory and evalute its effectiveness.
6. the basic ideology behind this research is to look more deep into social construction of the individual an dtherefore, it includes data from individual, family, friends, tecahers and peers.