{"title":"Sacrifice is a step beyond convenience: A review of convenience sampling in psychological research in Africa","authors":"S. Scholtz","doi":"10.4102/SAJIP.V47I0.1837","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Probability and non-probability sampling methods are used by researchers to learn about a population (Maree & Pietersen, 2016). The adequacy of these samples is determined by the composition, size (Vasileiou et al., 2018) and the chosen sample’s representativeness (Hanges & Wang, 2012). Despite being at the heart of research, psychology still pays little attention to sampling methodology (Fisher & Sandell, 2015; Robinson, 2014). Scholtz, De Klerk and De Beer (2020) found a lack of transparency in top-tier miscellaneous international psychology journals regarding the sampling methods. This lack of transparency was evident in articles regardless of the applied research method (e.g. qualitative and quantitative research methods). Furthermore, the justification for using specific sampling techniques is rare in industrial and organisational Orientation: Articles from three African psychology journals were reviewed to indicate their use and reporting practices of convenience samples.","PeriodicalId":47235,"journal":{"name":"SA Journal of Industrial Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5000,"publicationDate":"2021-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"17","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"SA Journal of Industrial Psychology","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4102/SAJIP.V47I0.1837","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"PSYCHOLOGY, APPLIED","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Probability and non-probability sampling methods are used by researchers to learn about a population (Maree & Pietersen, 2016). The adequacy of these samples is determined by the composition, size (Vasileiou et al., 2018) and the chosen sample’s representativeness (Hanges & Wang, 2012). Despite being at the heart of research, psychology still pays little attention to sampling methodology (Fisher & Sandell, 2015; Robinson, 2014). Scholtz, De Klerk and De Beer (2020) found a lack of transparency in top-tier miscellaneous international psychology journals regarding the sampling methods. This lack of transparency was evident in articles regardless of the applied research method (e.g. qualitative and quantitative research methods). Furthermore, the justification for using specific sampling techniques is rare in industrial and organisational Orientation: Articles from three African psychology journals were reviewed to indicate their use and reporting practices of convenience samples.
研究人员使用概率和非概率抽样方法来了解种群(Maree&Pietersen,2016)。这些样本的充分性取决于成分、大小(Vasileiou et al.,2018)和所选样本的代表性(Hanges&Wang,2012)。尽管心理学是研究的核心,但它仍然很少关注抽样方法(Fisher和Sandell,2015;Robinson,2014)。Scholtz、De Klerk和De Beer(2020)发现,顶级国际心理学期刊在抽样方法方面缺乏透明度。无论采用何种研究方法(如定性和定量研究方法),这种缺乏透明度的情况在文章中都很明显。此外,在行业和组织导向中,使用特定抽样技术的理由很少:对三家非洲心理学杂志的文章进行了审查,以表明他们使用和报告方便样本的做法。