Strengths-based approaches for quantitative data analysis: A case study using the australian Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children.

ABSTRACT: In Australia and internationally, there are increasing calls for the use of strengths-based methodologies, to counter the dominant deficit discourse that pervades research, policy, and media relating to Indigenous health and wellbeing. However, there is an absence of literature on the practical application of strengths-based approaches to quantitative research. This paper describes and empirically evaluates a set of strategies to support strengths-based quantitative analysis. A case study about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander child wellbeing was used to demonstrate approaches to support strengths-based quantitative analysis, in comparison to the dominant deficit approach of identifying risk factors associated with a negative outcome. Data from Wave 8 (2015) of the Australian Longitud

SUBMITTER: Thurber KA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7475116 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature