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Thematic Analysis Flashcards

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What is thematic analysis?

A

Finding themes and meaning within material

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What are the advantages of TA?

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Can be used with any qualitative data set

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What are the disadvantages of TA?

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Once the researcher finds a few themes, they tend to only look for examples of that theme

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What does IPA stand for?

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Interpretative phenomenology analysis

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What is IPA?

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Qualitative analysis that makes psychological assumptions about knowledge

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What are the assumptions about knowledge in IPA?

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Researchers interpret the participants interpretations (interpretations are not facts)

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What 3 things are useful in designing an IPA study?

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Idiographic (not nomothetic) / Meaning (not causation) / Quality (not quantity)

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Why should an IPA study be idiographic over nomothetic?

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Interested in a particular case - not the general statistics

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Why should an IPA study have meaning over causal relations?

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Interested in what things mean to people

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Why should an IPA study have quality over quantity?

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Interested in the quality and types of experiences, not the amount

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What is the main approach for IPA data gathering?

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Semi-structured interviews to get the participants own words / flexibility to probe and explore

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What is the most important thing about the sample?

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The type, not the size

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What 5 things would you need to do in an IPA study to transcribe the interview?

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Read through the analysis / identify key words / identify themes / cluster themes / integrate cases

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What 5 things would you need to do in a TA study to transcribe the interview?

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Familiarise self with material / code / find themes / review themes / define and name themes

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What is validation?

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Checking the plausibility

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What should you do during IPA analysis and in the write up?

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During analysis: iterative reading / Write up: present quotes

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According to Smith, how can you improve the quality of qualitative analysis?

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Skilled interviewing techniques / evidence to support claims / detailed commentary

18
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What are the advantages of using IPA?

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Gives speakers a voice / high validity / in-depth

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What are the disadvantages of using IPA?

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Idiographic (may lead to generalisations) / assumes language isn’t problematic / people’s experiences are not necessarily truth’s

20
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When should you use TA? When should you use IPA?

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TA for social media / IPA when interviewing a group about their experiences

21
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How are TA and IPA procedures similar? What 4 things do they both do?

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Read, code, organise, commentary

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