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Unobtrusive research refers to methods of collecting data that don’t interfere with the subjects under study (because these methods are not obtrusive). Both qualitative and quantitative researchers use unobtrusive research methods.
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Why Unobtrusive Research? Are female and male athletes at...
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Define unobtrusive method and explain what is meant by reactive and non-reactive research methods. Unobtrusive methods are strategies in which the researcher examines evidence of people’s behaviour or attitudes rather than interacting directly with those being studied.
- Content Analysis
- Physical Trace
- Archival Measures
One way of conducting unobtrusive research is to analyze texts. Texts come in all kinds of formats. At its core, content analysis addresses the questions of “Who says what, to whom, why, how, and with what effect?” (Babbie, 2010, pp. 328–329). Content analysis is a type of unobtrusive research that involves the study of human communications. Anothe...
Content is not the only sort of data that researchers can collect unobtrusively. Unobtrusive researchers might also be interested in analyzing the evidence that humans leave behind that tells us something about who they are or what they do. This kind evidence includes the physical traces left by humans and the material artifactsthat tell us somethi...
Archival measuresare hard copy documents or records, including written or tape-recorded material, photographs, newspapers, books, magazines, diaries, and letters. Webpages are also a source of archival measures and can include documents, images, videos, and audio files in addition to written materials (Palys & Atichison, 2014). While one might stat...
Jan 13, 2019 · Unobtrusive methods use ways of collecting data that do not involve the direct elicitation of information from research participants. They are useful in situations where it might be dangerous or difficult to question respondents directly or where, for one reason or another, using self-report methods will not yield reliable information.
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Unobtrusive research (or unobtrusive measures) is a method of data collection used primarily in the social sciences. The term unobtrusive measures was first coined by Webb, Campbell, Schwartz, & Sechrest in a 1966 book titled Unobtrusive Measures: Nonreactive Research in the Social Sciences. [1]
This section focuses on how to gather data unobtrusively and what to do with those data once they have been collected. A variety of ways exist for gathering data unobtrusively. For these purposes we will focus on three: content analysis, physical trace, and archival methods.
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Unobtrusive research refers to methods of collecting data that do not interfere with the subjects under study (because these methods are not obtrusive). Both qualitative and quantitative researchers use unobtrusive research methods.
