A Case for "Qualitative Confirmation" for the Social and Behavioral Sciences

1991 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 452-467 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven I. Miller ◽  
Marcel Fredericks
Keyword(s):  
Social And Behavioral Sciences ◽  
Behavioral Sciences ◽  
The Social ◽  
Qualitative Confirmation

scholarly journals The Center Page

2012 ◽  
Vol 45 (04) ◽  
pp. 822-823
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Social And Behavioral Sciences ◽  
Behavioral Sciences ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Grant Programs ◽  
The Social ◽  
Application Requirements

As a result of generous contributions by Association members and friends to the Centennial Campaign, APSA created nine endowments to support a diverse range of grant programs to encourage individual research and writing in all fields of political science and to facilitate collaboration among scholars working within the discipline and across the social and behavioral sciences and humanities. More details on the Centennial Center, these endowments, and application requirements [email protected].

scholarly journals When the Going Gets Tough, How Do We Perceive the Future?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie J. Tepper ◽  
Neil Anthony Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Time Perception ◽  
Integrated Model ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Social And Behavioral Sciences ◽  
Behavioral Sciences ◽  
Intervention Practice ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
Goal Directed Behavior ◽  
Experienced Difficulty

People struggle to stay motivated to work toward difficult goals. Sometimes the feeling of difficulty signals that the goal is important and worth pursuing; other times, it signals that the goal is impossible and should be abandoned. In this paper, we argue that how difficulty is experienced depends on how we perceive and experience the timing of difficult events. We synthesize research from across the social and behavioral sciences and propose a new integrated model to explain how components of time perception interact with interpretations of experienced difficulty to influence motivation and goal-directed behavior. Although these constructs have been studied separately in previous research, we suggest that these factors are inseparable and that an integrated model will help us to better understand motivation and predict behavior. We conclude with new empirical questions to guide future research and by discussing the implications of this research for both theory and intervention practice.

scholarly journals Revisiting Mediation in the Social and Behavioral Sciences

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aurelio José Figueredo ◽  
Rafael Antonio Garcia ◽  
Tomás Cabeza de Baca ◽  
Jonathon Colby Gable ◽  
Dave Weise
Keyword(s):  
Social And Behavioral Sciences ◽  
Behavioral Sciences ◽  
The Social

A Social, Behavioral, and Implementation Science Perspective on Convergence Mental Health

2021 ◽  
pp. 199-210
Author(s):  
Steven M. Albert ◽  
Edmund Ricci
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Implementation Science ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Mobile App ◽  
Social And Behavioral Sciences ◽  
Behavioral Sciences ◽  
The Social ◽  
Population Science ◽  
New Treatment ◽  
Mental Health Treatments

Convergence is best approached through a systems science lens because it includes multiple levels of influence and organization and a host of mutually reinforcing elements. Each of these factors requires behavioral and social science research to ensure that convergence is appropriately anchored in the experience of patients and their communities. For example, the continuous assessment of mental state made possible through real-time mobile app recording of voice, movement, and biosignatures will be much less effective if people reject it because of privacy concerns or if this monitoring is not adequately linked to choices for self-care. Patients may need in-person contact with a therapist to choose an appropriate app and in-person boosters to support effective use. Use of the app and its effectiveness accordingly depend on social-behavioral factors. Likewise, the social and behavioral sciences are central for shortening the time between development and translation of mental health treatments and programs. Including the social and behavioral sciences in mental health convergence science suggests the need for broad-scale efforts that link mental health to population science to systems thinking. This effort places mental health within the broader framework of population health and to implementation science for reducing the time from development of a new treatment to its widespread use. The approach has implications for data collection and analysis in that it entails much larger datasets and need for greater computational power.

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