A description of how adolescent girls recovering from addiction to prescription narcotics might or might not move forward to create a new life is an example of which of Kearney's category of qualitative findings?

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a. Restricted by a priori frameworks
b. Descriptive categories
c. Shared pathway or meaning
d. Depiction of experiential variation

Answer 1

ANS: D

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A This is not an example of "restricted by a priori frameworks," which describes a discovery being aborted because the researcher has obscured the findings with an existing theory.
B This is not an example of "descriptive categories," which describes a phenomenon vividly portrayed from a new perspective.
C This is not an example of "shared pathway or meaning," which describes a synthesis of a shared experience or process or integration of concepts that provides a complex picture of a phenomenon.
D This is an example of the category "depiction of experiential variation," which describes the main essence of an experience but also shows how the experience varies, depending on the individual or context.