3. Thematic Analysis and Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis Flashcards
Thematic analysis is an umbrella term for a set of a____ that share a focus of i____ t____
approaches, identifying themes
Thematic analysis m____ o____ and d____ your data in rich detail
minimally organises, describes
A theme is a p____ of m____ that captures:
1. Something i____ about the m____
2. A shared i____ or u____ m____
Emphasis is on m____, not necessarily p____
pattern of meaning
1. important, material
2. implicit, underlying meaning
Emphasis is on meaning (in relation to your research questions), not necessarily prevalence.
There are two places themes can come from, and its often a c____ of both:
1. D____-driven/i____ - c____ and theme d____ are d____-driven (b____-u____)
2. T____-driven/d____ - shaped by e____ t____ c____, which provide the ‘l____’ to c____ and d____ themes (t____-d____)
- Data, inductive, coding, development, data, bottom-up
- Theory, deductive, existing theoretical constructs, lens, code, develop, top-down
The six phases of Thematic analysis (TA) are:
1. F____ oneself with the data
2. G____ c____
3. S____ for/g____ themes
4. R____ potential themes
5. D____ and n____ themes
6. P____ the r____
- Familiarisation
- Generating codes
- Searing/generating
- Reviewing
- Defining, naming
- Producing the report
Familiarising oneself with the data means r____ all the t____ and taking i____ n____
reading, transcripts, initial notes
In initial coding, there are two types of coding:
1. S____ coding - identify r____ material
2. C____ coding - l____ by l____
- Selective, relevant
- Complete, line by line
A piece of coded text varies from a few w____ to a m____-s____ chunk
words, multi-sentence
Searching/generating themes is the process of c____ together s____ c____
clustering, similar codes
Reviewing themes involves reading all the collated e____ for each theme and considering whether they appear to form a c____ p____
extracts, coherent pattern
In thematic analysis, themes are c____ as p____ of s____ meaning underpinned by a c____ c____. They can be m____-f____, perhaps cutting across s____ t____ and telling a s____ about the data.
In comparison, topic summaries are buckets that c____ together e____ or the m____ things participants communicated about a topic - a s____ t____.
conceptualised, patterns, shared, central concept
multi-faceted, several topics, story
collect, everything, main, shared topic
A definition of a theme is a s____ d____ of each theme. Don’t just p____ the extracts, identify what is i____ about them and w____
short description
paraphrase, interesting, why
One problem with thematic analysis is “themes e____’ - themes don’t p____ e____ from the data
emerged, passively emerge
Advantages of thematic analysis are:
1. Can be used to address m____ t____ of q____ research questions
2. Can be used to a____ most types of q____ data
3. Not tied to particular t____ f____
- most types, qualitative
- analyse, qualitative
- theoretical framework
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) is a form of t____ a____ that makes a number of p____ a____
thematic analysis, psychological assumptions
In Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA), interviews are used for the study of e____
experience (phenomenology)
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) measures peoples ‘l____-w____’, the s____ of a____ in which the world is l____ and e____ and what m____ to participants
life-worlds
state of affairs, lived, experienced
matters
There are two assumptions about knowledge in IPA:
1. People i____ the world of p____. What researchers study therefore are their i____ of their world
2. Researchers i____ the world too. When they study people’s s____-m____, they bring their own s____-m____ to this enterprise. Researchers i____ people’s i____. Therefore r____ is built into IPA
- interpret, phenomena (things), interpretations
- interpret, sense-making, sense-making, interpret, interpretations, reflexivity (self-awareness in our activity as researchers)
You would do IPA if:
1. I____ (vs n____)
2. M____ (vs c____ r____)
3. Q____ (vs q____)
- Idiographic (vs nomothetic)
- Meanings (vs causal relations)
- Quality (vs quantity)
In Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA), research questions are o____ and e____ and tend to focus on the p____ rather than the o____
open, exploratory, process, outcome
The standard sample size in Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) is __
6-8 as standard (usually no more than 10)
Idiographic commitment means understanding the participants p____ o____ v____. There is a p____ focus on p____ m____-m____
participant’s point of view
psychological, personal meaning-making
Analytical stages of Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) are:
1. Read through t____ __
2. Identify k____ or p____
3. Identify t____
4. C____ of t____
5. I____ of c____
- transcript 1
- keywords, phrases
- themes
- clustering of themes
- integration of cases
Keywords are words that seem i____ as r____ of the speaker’s e____. You have to make a j____ about this
important, reflections, experience
judgement
Integration of cases happens if you have m____ t____ o____ c____. Use the t____ you have derived from the f____ i____ as ‘h____’ for organisation of the s____ and t____ interviews
more than one case
themes
first interview
‘hypotheses’
second, third
The validity of your analytic claims is ultimately a matter of their p____
plausibility
Iterative reading means s____ to the data and r____ to the data
stick, return
