Expert Evaluation on Urgent Research on Heritage Language Education: A Comparative Study in Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain

The divorce penalty: an interpretative phenomenological analysis to understand the lived experiences of adult children of divorce in Singapore

“…Snowball sampling is a method used to locate populations that are hidden or challenging to reach out to (Johnson, 2014). Given the sensitive nature of divorce where there is a certain social taboo around the subject (Jane Zhang, 2020), snowball sampling was a pivotal sampling tool to reach out to adult children of divorce for the purposes of the study and to obtain an even larger sample size (Gross et al, 2021). The snowball sampling method is contingent on referrals from respondents who have been initially sampled to other individuals that they believe meet the inclusion criteria and would be interested to participate in the study.…”