Innovative sampling and participant recruitment in sexuality research

McCormack, M.

doi:10.1177/0265407514522889

Innovative sampling and participant recruitment in sexuality research

McCormack, M.

Authors

M. McCormack

Abstract

Although making significant contributions to empirical and theoretical understanding of sexuality in society, qualitative research on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals encounters problems in participant recruitment and sampling. Participants for research on LGBT individuals are often recruited through counseling services and snowball sampling with the result that samples tend not to be representative of the general population—a significant problem given that it is a common practice for scholars to generalize from multiple sets of qualitative research. In this essay, I draw on a research project that used innovative recruitment procedures to argue for a plurality of recruitment procedures in future research on sexualities and personal relationships.

Citation

McCormack, M. (2014). Innovative sampling and participant recruitment in sexuality research. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 31(4), 475 -481. https://doi.org/10.1177/0265407514522889

Journal Article Type	Article
Online Publication Date	Feb 12, 2014
Publication Date	Jun 12, 2014
Deposit Date	Apr 11, 2014
Publicly Available Date	Apr 14, 2014
Journal	Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
Print ISSN	0265-4075
Electronic ISSN	1460-3608
Publisher	SAGE Publications
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	31
Issue	4
Pages	475 -481
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1177/0265407514522889
Keywords	Bisexuality, LGBT populations, Marginalized groups, Qualitative research, Sampling.

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