Focus Groups: A Practical and Applied Research Approach for Counselors

Kress, Victoria E.; Shoffner, Marie F.

doi:10.1002/j.1556-6678.2007.tb00462.x

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“…More precisely, among the many possible qualitative techniques the method of focus group was chosen as this particular technique is efficient and practical (Kress & Shoffner, 2007). Meanwhile, focus groups are a particularly useful tool for engaging culturally and linguistically diverse populations (Halcomb, Gholizadeh, Digiacomo, Phillips & Davidson, 2007).…”

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The value trade-off in higher education service: A qualitative intercultural approach to students’ perceptions

Gallarza

Gardó

2016

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Purpose: Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) have become a highly competitive market, where consumers (i.e. students) are highly involved in their choices, and managers need to focus on competitive edges. This paper aims to understand the factors that influence international Master students' choice behaviour and fulfil student expectations of customer value in HEIs. Design/methodology: With qualitative information (five focus groups) collected from international students (of 12 different nationalities) of several universities in Spain, UK and China, the paper investigates the formation of customer value as a trade-off between benefits and costs. This qualitative approach aims first at assessing this particular service through the concept of value through verifying both the positive and negative dimensions of educational service, and second, to comment on the intercultural aspects of this dual approach to higher education consumption. The contribution lays on a value-based approach as a trade-off focusing, as a step forward from the traditional sociodemographic approaches, on behavioural variables (functional, social and emotional values) and considering not just price but also non-monetary costs.

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The value trade-off in higher education service: A qualitative intercultural approach to students’ perceptions

Gallarza

Gardó

2016

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“…Themes were developed from the data by noting the responses; similar units of meaning were then grouped or categorized [23]. A preliminary summary was shared with the participants by e-mail as they had left the university by the time of analysis.…”

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“…The full transcript was read for a second time and a table was created. Themes were developed from the data by noting the responses, and similar units of meaning were then grouped or categorized [23]. These themes were compared with the literature.…”

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The Undergraduate Medical Radiation Science Students' Perception of Using the e-Portfolio in Their Clinical Practicum

Bradley

Schofield

2014

Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Sciences

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“…Participants were assigned a pseudonym that was used in completion of an online AUDIT, in the interview process, and for data analysis. Kress and Shoffner (2007) promoted focus groups for exploratory research, especially when the social construction of meaning making is important to the phenomenon being studied. Focus groups, conducted separately for HR and LR drinkers, allowed the college women's discussions of GI to be observed firsthand during the interviews and for themes to organically emerge related to collective perceptions of college women.…”

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College Women's Gender Identity and Their Drinking Choices

Likis-Werle

Borders

2017

J Addict Offender Couns

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Because college women's drinking rates now rival men's rates, the authors interviewed college women to ascertain how gender identity affected their drinking choices. Interpretative phenomenological analysis indicated that high-risk drinkers viewed their gender identity differently than did low-risk drinkers. Counseling implications are discussed.Keywords: gender identity, college women's drinking, interpretative phenomenological analysis Historically, researchers have documented gender differences in drinking patterns, concluding that men drink more than women (e.g., Borsari & Carey, 2006;Lewis & Neighbors, 2004). However, in the past decade, researchers have pointed to a convergence in the high-risk (HR) drinking rates of college men and women (American College Health Association, 2011; Johnston, O'Malley, Bachman, Schulenburg, & Miech, 2014;Piane & Safer, 2008;Wechsler et al., 2002). In fact, in the spring of 2011, a slightly higher percentage of college women than men reported drinking in the past 30 days (American College Health Association, 2011). Researchers have begun to raise concerns about the specific alcohol-related dangers to women, such as health consequences, sexual violence, unplanned sexual activity, and sexually transmitted infections (National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, 2007;M. A. Smith & Berger, 2010;W. B. Smith & Weisner, 2000), and have noted that women are starting to drink at earlier ages, which is a factor that has been positively correlated with developing alcohol dependence (see Likis-Werle, 2012, for a comprehensive review). Beyond these quantitative investigations, there is little research examining what contributes to these changes in women's drinking rates and, subsequently, how counselors can effectively intervene to change drinking behaviors. Some researchers have speculated that social and environmental factors have accelerated the trends in increased women's drinking. Piane and Safer (2008) PO Box 70701, Johnson City, Ricciardelli, Connor, Williams, and Young (2001) echoed this call, stating that women's drinking is worthy of study "in its own right" (p. 135). Exploring college women's gender identity (GI), or how they think about their biological sex, provides one avenue for responding to these calls. Hoffman, Borders, and Hattie (2000) defined GI as a fluid concept wherein a woman determines how well she fits with her idea of femininity and how much salience gender has for her. GI includes messages from family, peers, and society that a woman internalizes about how her sex should behave. In the post-women's liberation movement, as gender roles have become more egalitarian, the current generation of college women may not be bound by the same GI expectations as previous generations. Indeed, researchers in countries such as the Czech Republic (Kubicka & Csémy, 2008), New Zealand (Lyons & Willott, 2008, Australia (Sheehan & Ridge, 2001), and many others (Rahav, Wilsnack, Bloomfield, Gmel, & Kuntsche, 2006) have acknowledged the parallel between evolving socia...

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Focus Groups: A Practical and Applied Research Approach for Counselors

Cited by 66 publications

References 26 publications

The value trade-off in higher education service: A qualitative intercultural approach to students’ perceptions

The value trade-off in higher education service: A qualitative intercultural approach to students’ perceptions

The Undergraduate Medical Radiation Science Students' Perception of Using the e-Portfolio in Their Clinical Practicum

College Women's Gender Identity and Their Drinking Choices

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