Lecture 13 - IPA & Grounded Theory Flashcards
What is IPA
Definition
How many steps are there for IPA
6 Steps
What is step 1 of IPA
Becoming familiar with interview data
What is step 2 of IPA
Comment on the transcript summarising or paraphrasing data; note connections, similarities/differences and idiosyncrasies/unusual phrases words, etc.
What is step 3 of IPA
Return to the beginning and write down theme titles: these should be at a higher, more abstract level than comments and make more use of psychological terminology
What is step 4 of IPA
Connect the themes and identify a structure
What is step 5 of IPA
Go back to the data and check that the themes and connections work for the data
What is step 6 of IPA
After completing the process for the first transcript, do the same for the next one:
either start to code the 2nd transcript using the emerged themes from the first analysis
or start from the beginning all over again
- As a general rule of thumb, if more than half of the participants report a theme, it can be
considered to be recurrent.
IPA Strengths
- Flexible & inductive
- Developed within psychology and specifically orients to psychological concerns
- Suitable for use in time- and resource-limited research
What does flexible and conductive mean
strength of IPA
(i.e. not concerned with testing a theory, but generating something new from the data)
What are IPA limitations
- Assumes that data used in analysis describe reality & tells us how indivs make meaning of the world
- Some would question whether indivs have the necessary skill in language to convey this level of meaning
- Does not specify how the active role of researcher should be used in analysis
- Lacks explanatory power when describing people’s lives
Grounded Theory
Coding is a lot more detailed compared to thematic analysis
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