"Q-Analysis": Caveat Emptor

Steven R. Brown

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Published: Oct 1, 1984

Steven R. Brown

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R.H. Atkin's Q-analysis is described in terms of a study of nurses' countertransferences toward patients, and the outcome of a Q-analysis is compared with Stephenson's Q methodology. The conclusion is reached that Q-analysis is a variant of R methodology inasmuch as it is logico-categorical and oriented toward discovering inherent structure among objective features of the external world, hence is distinct from Q methodology which is designed to provide a science for subjectivity.

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Brown, S. R. (1984). "Q-Analysis": Caveat Emptor. Operant Subjectivity, 8(1). Retrieved from https://ojs.library.okstate.edu/osu/index.php/osub/article/view/9189

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Vol. 8 No. 1 (1984)

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