Abstract

MALDAVSKY, David. Methodologic and procedural problems in the research on couples and on families. Subj. procesos cogn. [online]. 2014, vol.18, n.1, pp.188-220. ISSN 1852-7310.

The author presents the summary of seven investigations on couples or family from a methodological-procedural perspective, to show the ordinary and the diversity derived from the objectives of each research and the corresponding samples. Regarding each investigation, the author is interested in showing especially the reason why .an author chose a certain instrument for a particular study, and the steps taken to prepare the sample and to apply the corresponding tools. Among these studies, the three investigations on couples and one on family correspond to the clinical area; two studies correspond to the psychosocial area, and the last one contains a general approach to couples and family ties. In these investigations the method was the same, the David Liberman algorithm (DLA), which allows to study wishes and defenses in different manifestations both verbal and nonverbal. In the second part of the paper, the author formulates comments derived from the previous presentations. He refers to the DLA tools and their implementations; to the narratives as speech acts, to the regulated procedures and the procedures according with the research objectives and with the sample, to the elaboration of the results, to the narcissistic contract and the denegative pact, and to the types of investigations and the research design.

Keywords : Research on couples; Research on families; Method; Procedure.

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