What is an embedded design? Give an example.

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What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

Testa and colleagues (Testa, Livingston, & VanZile-Tamsen, 2011) supplemented their quantitative study of violence against women with a qualitative component because violence against women is “a complex, multifaceted phenomenon, occurring within a social context that is influenced by gender norms, interpersonal relationships, and sexual scripts” and “understanding of these experiences of violence is dependent on the subjective meaning for the woman and cannot easily be reduced to a checklist”. This was an embedded—QUAN(qual)—design.
Victims’ responses to structured questions indicated an association between alcohol and rape, but when victims elaborated on their experiences in qualitative interviews, their comments led to a new way of understanding this quantitative association. Although this association has often been interpreted as suggesting “impaired judgment” about consent by intoxicated victims, the women interviewed by Testa et al. (2011) all revealed that they had had so much to drink that they were unconscious or at least unable to speak at the time of the rape. Testa and her colleagues concluded that the prevalence of this type of “incapacitated rape” required a new approach to the problem of violence against women (2011)