Deductive Approach To Qualitative Research In Psychology

Goals of Research
When a counselor takes the time to plan out research and follow through with this research, it is so important for them to implement this data into a report for many reasons. Not only for them to gage the success of the interventions, strategies, and practices they have been focusing on for some time now, but to share with others so that their success can be used and manipulated for fine tuning or for the help of another participant somewhere else. Setting goals through this process is how one can accomplish these things. Whether the research is qualitative, quantitative or mixed methods the research needs to have goals. Now, often time’s goals can be hard to set during research. What goals are we trying to achieve? The goals …show more content…
While being similar in research regularities the significant difference between the two approaches is that the deductive approach is focused on testing a theory while the inductive approach is focused on the idea of a new theory that comes out of the data that has been input. A deductive research approach starts with a hypothesis and is based on the idea of cause and effect. When looking at the inductive research approach, it starts with several research questions that will narrow the idea of the research at hand and focuses on trying to exploring new ideas. Often time’s researchers even take previously researched ideas and look at them again trying to find if anything had been missed or if they could gather new data from them. Inductive approaches are often associated with qualitative research while deductive approaches coincide with quantitative …show more content…
During the first week of research I was able to look up several different areas of the substance abuse topic. I pulled several quantitative and qualitative researches that pertained to substance abuse in teens during high school. The qualitative research articles all gathered their data from observations and interviews. The counselors went into rehab facilities and high schools to pull this information. The data also came from one on one interviews, as well as group meetings at rehab facilities and substance abuse meetings. The quantitative research articles all had data that was gathered from statistics and numbers that were counted inside those facilities. It was clear from the number articles that were qualitative that this was the route that I wanted to take. Of the eight that I pulled, only two were quantitative. The information comes straight from the patients themselves and it allows for valid