We'd Like to Ask You Some Questions, But We Have to Find You First: An Internet-Based Study of Lesbian Clients in Therapy with Lesbian Feminist Therapists

Coming Out Growth: Conceptualizing and Measuring Stress-Related Growth Associated with Coming Out to Others as a Sexual Minority

“…As such, it is unknown whether the present sample is representative of the larger population of out LG individuals. Previous research has indicated that samples recruited from sexual minority organizations/groups may be more out than their peers (Quartaro and Spier 2002), and the present sample was heavily slanted toward individuals in the integration/synthesis phase/stage of LG identity development, which may have reduced variability in the sample and attenuated correlations that would have otherwise been significant.…”

Are Samples in Randomized Controlled Trials of Psychotherapy Representative of Community Outpatients? A New Methodology and Initial Findings.

“…Researchers have long been aware of the problematic nature of generalizing findings from research settings to situations and populations not specifically studied in the research. Studies conducted by psychological researchers on volunteer samples (Dura & Kiecolt-Glaser, 1990; Mandel, Weiner, Kaplan, Pelkovitz, & Labruna, 2000), undergraduate samples (Sears, 1986), and Internet-based samples (Quartaro & Spiers, 2002) have been criticized for their limited generalizability. Medical researchers have discussed the problems associated with conducting research on unrepresentative samples and the difficulty of recruiting representative samples (Sellors et al, 2002), as well as the ethical implications and limitations in generalizability associated with excluding patients from research trials (Bartlett et al, 2003; Chalmers, 1990).…”