Abstract
Many characteristics shape the research methods of family scholars. First, families have a shared past and future (Copeland and White, 1991). Other fields study groups that have history, but few areas involve a history that is so persistently salient to everyday decisions. Second, families are both sacred and profane. The reverence we have for families challenges researchers who seek to objectify and measure them, while also recognizing the levels of violence, dishonesty, and abuse in families that expressions like “dirty linen” fail to capture. Being both sacred and profane introduces a level of privacy that is difficult to unravel.
Keywords
- Marital Satisfaction
- Ordinary Little Square Regression
- Marital Conflict
- Marital Adjustment
- Quantitative Methodology
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Acock, A.C. (1999). Quantitative Methodology for Studying Families. In: Sussman, M.B., Steinmetz, S.K., Peterson, G.W. (eds) Handbook of Marriage and the Family. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-5367-7_11
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