Firstly, analysing (by statistical methods) the findings of a three year -
prospective quantitative study of postnatal depression, and secondly, the concluding years of my psychoanalytical psychotherapy training — because in each case the importance of attachment and of postnatal disruption by maternal depression emerged.
Not exact matches
Prospective students with a business background can stand out in the admissions process by showing why they want to take their career to the next level,
studying the school and making sure their
quantitative skills are sharp.
The strongest research methods for psychological
studies are: qualitative findings versus
quantitative; experimental rather than descriptive or correlational; controlled - experiment, meta - analysis, and observation designs over archival, case
study, computational modeling, content analysis, field experiment, interview, neuroimaging, quasi experiment, self - report inventory, random sample survey, or twin
study; and
prospective (where subjects are recruited prior to the proposed independent effects being administered) and longitudinal (where subjects are
studied at multiple time points) rather than retrospective or cross-section
study.
In a
quantitative summary of 40
prospective cohort
studies with an average follow - up of 14.3 years, Yu (2011) found a 13 percent lower risk of total cancer among coffee drinkers compared to non-drinkers or those with lowest intakes.
The search was limited by language (the paper had to be in English), by methodology (the
study had to be an empirical
study, experimental replication, follow - up
study, longitudinal
study,
prospective study, retrospective
study,
quantitative study, or treatment outcome / randomized clinical trial), by publication type (the
study had to be a journal article published in a peer - reviewed journal), and by sample (the
study had to be conducted on humans).