STATEMENT

DERIVATION
LEARNING OBJECTIVES

At the end of the report everyone will be able to understand

the concept of statement derivation.
STATEMENT DERIVATION
 a strategy for developing a statement or set of statements
about a phenomenon by use of an underlying analogy
between two fields of inquiry.

 a statement in the context of statement derivation takes the

form of a declarative sentence in which a relationship is
posited between two or more concepts.
Purpose of Statement Derivation
 to formulate one or more statements about a phenomenon
that is currently not well understood.

Statement Derivation is especially relevant when a theorist wishes to clarify

how two or more concepts about a phenomenon are related or wants a
derived set of statements about a phenomenon in order to then build an
integrated theoretical model of it.
PROCEDURES FOR STATEMENT DERIVATION

1. Become thoroughly familiar with any existing literature on a topic of interest.

2. Search other fields for a new ways of looking at the topic of interest.
3. Select the source or parent field to be used in the derivation process, and
carefully identify the structural and content feature of the parent statements to be
used in derivations.
4. Develop new statements about the topic of interest from the content and structure
of statements in the parent field.
5. Redefine any new concepts or terms in the derived statements to fit the specific
subject matter of the topic of interest.
 PROCESS OF STATEMENT DERIVATION
Structural or Content
Statement 1 Transposed to
Statement 1 Restated as analog:
In Field 1 In Field 2 Statement 2
In Field 2

A statement (Statement 1) from one field of interest (Field 1)

is used to derive the content or structure of a second statement
( Statement 2) for a second field ( Field 2).
EXAMPLE:
Parent Statement:
“ By the preservation of constancy of the internal environment, warm-blooded
animals are freed from the influence of vicissitudes in the external environment.’
( Cannon, 1963,p.178).

New Statement Derivation:

By the preservation of constancy of self-esteem, human beings are freed from the
influence of social stressors.
ADVANTAGE OF STATEMENT DERIVATION

 It is an economical and expeditious way of developing

statements about a phenomenon.

 It does not require research data collection as a starting point.

 THAT ENDS MY REPORT.
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