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- Title
Debriefing the Family: Is Research an Intervention?
- Authors
BUSSELL, DANIELLE A.; MATSEY, KATHRYN COOKE; REISS, DAVID; HETHERINGTON, MAVIS
- Abstract
The primary focus of this article is to examine the general assumption that families are left largely unchanged by their participation in research, and to question whether family research can have unintended positive or negative effects on participants. The present article reports feedback from families participating in the Nonshared Environment and Adolescent Development project, a longitudinal study of family process and adolescent development. Families differed in their perceptions about whether the research experience was positive, detrimental, or inconsequential. This feedback underscores the researcher's ethical responsibility to detect and remove deleterious effects of participation. Suggestions are made for providing adequate debriefing to subjects and for using debriefing as a research tool to study the interaction between researcher and families.
- Subjects
FAMILY research; FAMILY relations; ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT analysis; PARENT-child relationships; RESEARCH methodology; SOCIAL context
- Publication
Family Process, 1995, Vol 34, Issue 2, p145
- ISSN
0014-7370
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1545-5300.1995.00145.x