For the first part of their research, Testa et al. (2011) analyzed mostly qualitative data from semi-structured interviews with descriptions of 100 incidents of sexual assault. The researchers used the insights from their qualitative data analysis to test, with the quantitative data from the same interview, “the hypothesis that sexual assertiveness should be more predictive of coercion than rape, whereas alcohol consumption should be more strongly associated with rape.” (p. 240) What type of mixed method design was implemented in this example?
a. integrated
b. embedded
c. staged
d. complex
e. research program
