Professor Bertha Bettina conducted a research project exploring adolescent girl peer group pressure.She used closed-ended questionnaires and focus groups.Of the 221 girls that fit the criteria for inclusion,90 girls agreed to complete the self-administered questionnaire; of those,50 girls agreed to participate in focus groups.During analysis,descriptive statistics about behaviours reported by the girls were joined with major themes that came out of the focus group interviews. Which one of the following types of sampling designs did Professor Bettina use?
A) Simple random sampling
B) Nonprobability purposive sampling
C) Cluster sampling
D) Simple random sampling and cluster sampling
E) Multi-method sampling

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Professor Bettina used nonprobability purposive sampling by selecting girls who fit the criteria for inclusion and then inviting those girls to participate in the research project. The sample size is small and not randomly selected, which is characteristic of purposive sampling.

Professor Bertha Bettina Conducted a Research Project Exploring Adolescent Girl