Be. Wampold, NECESSARY (BUT NOT SUFFICIENT) INNOVATION - COMMENT ON FOX AND JONES (1998), KOEHLY AND SHIVY (1998), AND RUSSELL, KAHN, SPOTH, AND ALTMAIER (1998), Journal of counseling psychology, 45(1), 1998, pp. 46-49
In the Special Section on Innovative Quantitative Research Methods, C.
M. Fox and J. A. Jones (1998), L. M. Koehly and V. A. Shivy (1998), a
nd D. W. Russell, J. H. Kahn, R. Spoth, and E. M. Altmaier (1998) have
presented statistical methods related to Rasch modeling, social netwo
rk analysis, and latent variable structural equation modeling for expe
rimental designs, respectively. These methods address 3 critically imp
ortant issues in counseling psychology research: (a) measuring constru
cts, (b) modeling processes of change, and (c) operationalizing social
relations. It is argued that innovation in methods is necessary to st
udy complex phenomena, but sophisticated methods should not be used to
disguise insufficient conceptualizations of the research problem.