Abstract
Balancing risks and benefits is a necessary ethical task for social science researchers. Community psychologists must often consider risks and benefits not just for individual participants, but also for the group, system, or society that those individuals inhabit. Little ethical guidance currently exists for how to navigate this ethical challenge across these multiple levels. In this article, we use a case example of social network research incorporating multiple levels of analysis to identify common risks and benefits and understand their relationship to each other. We conclude by discussing distinctive ethical considerations revealed by this case example.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 391-397 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | American journal of community psychology |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue number | 3-4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Dec 2017 |
Keywords
- Ethics
- Group research
- Research methods
- Social network analysis
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Health(social science)
- Applied Psychology
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health