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Nursing: just a job? Do statistics tell us what we think?
Author(s) -
Williams Catherine,
Soothill Keith,
Barry Jon
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
journal of advanced nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.948
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 1365-2648
pISSN - 0309-2402
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2648.1991.tb01795.x
Subject(s) - meaning (existential) , latent class model , psychology , statistical analysis , class (philosophy) , value (mathematics) , resource (disambiguation) , focus (optics) , nursing , social psychology , medicine , statistics , computer science , mathematics , artificial intelligence , computer network , physics , optics , psychotherapist
This study considers the value of classifying attitudinal statements given by nurses in a questionnaire by the statistical procedure of latent class analysis It demonstrates with the use of qualitative data derived from in‐depth interviews how precarious are the groups derived from statistical analysis However, it is argued that the apparent discrepancies between responses ‘objectively’ derived by a statistical approach and those ‘subjectively’ declared by respondents may focus on different levels of meaning and may well provide a useful resource Most importantly, it is stressed that a dynamic model is needed which recognizes change and the consequences of change