Citation

Lester D. Suicidol. Online 2010; 1: 76-78.

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(Copyright © 2010, The author(s), Publisher Medical University of Vienna, Department of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy)

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Abstract

A recent article by Hjelemand and Knizek (Suicide & Life-Threatening Behavior, 40, 74-80) presented the case for qualitative research in suicidology. The present essay identifies and illustrates six dimensions in their discussion: explaining versus understanding, qualitative versus quantitative studies, case studies versus large samples, descriptive versus inferential statistics, idiographic versus nomothetic approaches and phenomenological versus interpretative approaches.

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