“I need numbers before I will buy it”: Reading and writing qualitative scholarship on close relationships

Authors

Dawn O. Braithwaite, University of Nebraska–LincolnFollow
Julia Moore, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Jenna Stephenson Abetz, College of CharlestonFollow

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

2014

Citation

Published in Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 31:4 (2014), pp. 490–496; doi: 10.1177/0265407514524131

Comments

Copyright © 2014 Dawn O. Braithwaite, Julia Moore, and Jenna Stephenson Abetz; published by Sage Publications. Used by permission.

Abstract

The authors highlight important contributions of qualitative research for the study of close relationships, arguing for greater representation of this scholarship in the journals. Four challenges experienced by interpretive researchers trying to publish in Journal of Social and Personal Relationships and close relationship journals are discussed.