Glossary terms beginning with Q
The plain-language glossary behind The Architecture of Intimacy — a field guide to 369 green flags of healthy relationships.
Terms beginning with Q
- qualitative
- Describing research based on people's own accounts and descriptions of their experience rather than on numerical measurement of performance or outcomes.
- qualitative research qualitative study
- Research built from interviews and open-ended accounts rather than statistics — suited to showing how people actually experience something, not how often it happens.
- quality of alternatives perceived quality of alternatives
- How appealing a person judges their other romantic options to be; in this model, seeing those alternatives as weaker is tied to firmer commitment.