Though this method is similar to the visual mapping described above and can itself be quite useful in many applications, the need to show hierarchical relationships is much lower in this research area than the need to properly illustrate process relationships and outcomes and to have these relationships and outcomes understood by the reader. Modeling associations is useful in many settings, especially in breaking down complex theories that are built on more abstract principles, but this really does not apply to the research situation at hand (Schensul et al. 1999). Both the conceptual frameworks and the actual data and processes to be examined in this research are more concrete, and the researchers and readers will be better served by the process mapping advocated above than by the modeling association described here. There are no "explain and predict" techniques that would be entirely discounted for use in the...
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