The role of emotions in fieldwork: A Self-Study of Family Research in a corrections setting

Qualitative Report

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1387-1414

  Arditti, Joyce A ^a   Joest, Karen S ^b   Lambert Shute, Jennifer ^c   Walker, Latanya ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c VALDOSTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Corrections; Emotions; Fieldwork; Qualitative Research; Reflexivity; Self Study

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649363089     PISSN: 10520147     EISSN: 21603715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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