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Showing 1 to 20 of 401 for “"Snowball Sampling"”.
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Toward a Social Psychology of Social Movement Participation: Social Networks and the Process of Involvement
… inactive feminists and traditional women using a snowball sampling technique.
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Experiences of Abused Unemployed Young Women at Acornhoek Village, Bushbuckridge Municipality, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa
… Municipality. Non-probability purposive and snowball sampling was used as a method to select the participants. To choose the participants, a non-probability purposive and snowball sampling technique was adopted. Ethical considerations were considered for the sake of confidentiality and the …
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Shame shapeshifters masking as disengagement: a grounded theory study examining academic achievement-related emotions in high school
… place with individuals, ages 18–30, recruited by snowball sampling, through social media and electronic communication such as e-mail or text messages in several Midwestern states. Snowball sampling involved asking a number of people who else to talk to about their high school experiences (Patton, …
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'The names we give' : narratives of identity and positioning of the 'helpers' in Pofadder
… through a combination of purposive and snowball sampling to best represent the variety of demographics and positionalities in the town.
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Exploring individual and organizational level antecedents of experienced workplace incivility
… from companies and through an internet-based snowball sampling approach. Participants completed a questionnaire to assess experienced workplace incivility and dispositional individual and work characteristics. The results indicated that individual and work characteristics are important …
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Perceptions of Safety Within the Bridgewater State University Community
… was sent using a combination of convenient and snowball sampling. Participants in this survey include administration, faculty, staff, and students from the campus community. Results suggest that individuals who took this survey felt moderately safe while on campus. Possible applications that may …
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Family Deepening: A Qualitative Inquiry into the Experience of Families Who Participate in Service Missions
… were identified through a criteria-based snowball sampling technique. The data were analyzed using constant comparison. Based on the data analysis a core category emerged that encapsulated the result of the family service experience. The core category was coined, "family deepening." …
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Work or welfare: The choice for single mothers in poverty
… job market to support their families. A snowball sampling technique resulted in a sample of ten women with experience both in the minimum-wage labor market and on welfare. The study took place over fourteen months. A qualitative design was used, including life histories, structured and …
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"""The longer I live here the more I see it"": Exploring length of residence, group identification and race-related stress among black Caribbean immigrants"
… organizations, community establishments and snowball sampling. It was hypothesized that length of residence and racial identity would predict race-related stress, and that racial identity would mediate the relationship between length of residence and race-related stress. Regression analyses …
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Male anti-rape activists : an exploratory study
… activists from Cape Town, who were chosen using "snowball" sampling. This technique involves the location of one or more informants and requesting them to supply names of other people who would be likely participants in the research. The interviews were tape recorded and later transcribed. Nine of …
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“Others” (Lain-lain): Falling Between Racial Categories in Contemporary Malaysia
… from a group of participants obtained through snowball sampling, and though focused on the Malaysian context, employs insights from broader scholarship on semiotic anthropology, Southeast Asian studies, as well as race and racialization. Throughout this thesis, I endeavor to explore the …
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Health literacy in Toronto : applying the TOFHLA to identify the gap between physician and patient
… who were directly approached, further using a snowball sampling method. The Test of Functional Health Literacy Assessment (TOFHLA) is used to assess a patient’s level of comprehension of health-related material. The TOFHLA was validated by researchers Baker and Parker et al. in two separate …
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(Inter)national Review of Periprosthetic Hip and Knee Fracture Diagnostic and Treatment Strategies
… A two-round Delphi consensus with purposive and snowball sampling recruited 30 orthopaedic surgeons (final response rate THA n=25, TKA n=20) from 13 countries. Anonymized, mobile-responsive questionnaires synthesized evidence around Vancouver, Rorabeck, Su and Felix classifications, stability …
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The effects of infidelity on lesbian relationships
… with 10 lesbian participants recruited using a snowball sampling technique. Semi-structured interviews were conducted. In vivo coding, focused coding, and analytical memos along with member checking were used to analyze the data. Three themes emerged. First, infidelity due to distance and lack …
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Indigenous culture as a strategy to defer Mushkegowuk youth from criminal behaviour in Moose Cree First Nation.
… First Nation individuals by way of purposive and snowball sampling to recruit participants. Three major themes were discovered in the semi-structured interviews: Mushkegowuk Culture as described by the community members residing in Moose Factory, Intergenerational Impacts on fragmented Culture as …
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Race relations in Sudbury : a focus on African-Canadians
… meanings they ascribe to these encounters. Using snowball sampling, data for this study were collected from the personal stories of 20 African‐Canadians in the city of Greater Sudbury. This thesis employed a phenomenological qualitative inquiry to focus on participants’ life experiences in the …
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Baby Boom Women: Seeking Meaning, Satisfaction in Retirement
… early retirees were recruited for the sample via snowball sampling techniques. Semi-structured interviews were conducted, either in-person or by telephone, using a guided interview schedule incorporating open-ended responses. Narrative thematic analysis was employed utilizing a coding scheme …
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DISCLOSURE DECISION MODEL: ANALYSIS OF PRIVATE AND WORKPLACE FRIENDSHIPS
… Data were collected from 117 individuals through snowball sampling. Findings indicated individuals were closer and perceived more support with private friends than with workplace friends. Individuals tended to use relationship development and stress relief disclosure goals with both their private …
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The Impact of Nyaope use among the Youth in the Rural Communities of Thulamela Municipality, Vhembe District, Limpopo Province, South Africa
… the use of nyaope. Non-probability purposive and snowball sampling methods were adopted because participants who use nyaope are hard to locate. The total number of participants (8) who formed part of the study was determined by data saturation. Semi-structured interviews were used as a method of …
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Exploring the intended and achieved outcomes of the Life Orientation curriculum: A Case study of TVET college graduates in the Western Cape
… recent college graduates were recruited using snowball sampling and were interviewed about their trajectories after graduation.
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