An empirical investigation of sampling strategies in marital research
An empirical investigation of sampling strategies in marital research
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10.2307/353411
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发表时间：
1995-11-01
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Bradbury, TN
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作者：
Karney, BR;Davila, J;Bradbury, TN
由于缺乏招募受试者程序的数据，婚姻研究人员解释和建立之前研究的能力受到了阻碍。目前的研究通过检查不同抽样技术对婚姻研究中获得的样本的影响来解决这一缺陷。在研究I中，根据人口统计学、婚前经历、个性和婚姻满意度，通过报纸广告招募的夫妇比通过结婚证招募的夫妇更有可能出现婚姻不和。在研究2中，根据所有夫妇从结婚证上获得的数据，回复了邮寄的邀请函的夫妇听起来不那么传统，在工作和教育方面比没有回复的夫妇更有地位。效应量估计表明，抽样技术对样本组成的影响比自我选择偏差更大。基于这些发现，Jive提出了改进婚姻研究中抽样程序的质量的建议。
The ability of marital researchers to interpret and build upon previous research has been hindered by a lack of data on the procedures used to recruit subjects. The current studies address this shortcoming by examining the effects of different sampling techniques on the samples obtained in marital research. In Study I, couples recruited through newspaper advertisements were found to be at greater risk for marital discord than couples recruited through marriage licenses, on the basis of demography, premarital experiences, personality, and marital satisfaction. In Study 2, couples who responded to a mailed solicitation were Sound to be less traditional and of higher status in terms of jobs and education than couples who did not respond, on the basis of data available for all couples from their marriage licenses. Effect-size estimates indicate that sampling technique had greater effects on sample composition than self-selection bias. Based on these findings, Jive recommendations are made for improving the quality of sampling procedures in marital research.