Capturing Identity: Quantitative and Qualitative Methods - Softcover

This is a useful resource for personality theorists, educators, and developmentalists. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students and researchers. -- C. T. Fischer * CHOICE * The editors succeed in bringing together in a coherent manner aspects of identity assessment not often easily integrated in the existing literature. -- Leehu Zysberg * PsycCRITIQUES *

Scientists from six countries, well known for their work in the field of identity research, explain and comment on methodological approaches used to research identity. This book concentrates on qualitative methods, such as narrative identity analysis or semistructured interviewing techniques to determine identity status, as well as the quantitative method of using questionnaires. It also discusses the advantages and disadvantages of these methods and their future integration. The reader will learn about qualitative and quantitative research and discover the similarities and differences between the methods of researching identity, depending on research with methodological roots in one field, the other, or both. Chapters include: _