Week 6.2 Doing Psych Flashcards
4 stages of qualitative research interviews
planning and preparing research
conducting interviews
transcribing
analysing and writing up analysis
3 ways to analyse qualitative interview data
thematic analysis
grounded theory
interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA)
what research interest is associated with thematic analysis?
what people see as important about an activity/event/phenomenon
what research interest is associated with IPA?
what it means to people to have certain experiences
what research interest is associated with grounded theory?
psychological processes and aim to develop a theory
thematic analysis (5 points)
method of data analysis for identifying patterns in data
- focus on meaning and patterns
- identifying relevant themes
- theme is coherent/meaningful pattern in data
- provides foundations for other methodologies i.e. IPA or grounded theory (GT)
realist approach in TA
get an accurate pic of human psychology = attitudes, beliefs, experiences as real
critical realist approach in TA
get at personal ‘sense making’ + pic of human psychology = meaning attributed to experiences
social constructionist approach in TA
get at how an event/phenomenon/activity is constructed in a specific context = representations of particular subjects in particular conext
data collection in TA
purposive/convenience sampling
small/big data sets
often qualitative interviews/focus groups data
transcription in TA
orthographic + non-linguistic cues
step by step analysis by braun and clarke 2006 (6 things)
- familiarizing self with data (transcribe, ,read)
- generating initial codes (systematic)
- collating codes into themes
- reviewing themes
- defining and naming themes
- producing analysis - selected extracts
generating codes
- identify and label key things about what is going on
- explicit and implicit meanings
3 types of coding
- descriptive (summarise topic)
- in vivo (words/phrases from text)
- categorising labels (values/attitudes/beliefs)
searching for themes
theme captures cluster of related codes
obtained by joining several codes in meaningful way
reflect higher level of analysis
3 different levels of themes
overarching - an idea underpinning a number of themes
themes - meaning related to a central concept
sub-themes - different aspects of same theme
criteria for good TA braun and clarke 2006 (6 things)
transcription - detail/checked against original
coding - thorough/inclusive/comprehensive
themes - coherent/consistent/distinctive
analysis - interpreted/well-organized/balance
overall - all phases complemented adequately
report - language/concept used are consistent with epistemological position of analysis
interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) approach
study experiences that matter to people
focus on participant’s psychological world
providing an interpretation of this inside view
critical and conceptual commentary on personal sense-making of experiences
data collection in IPA
purposive sampling
homogenous groups
small sample sizes (1-15 people)
qualitative interviews of experiences
transcription in IPA
orthographic
analysis in IPA
look at data + identify themes + concepts
based on case-by-case analysis
smith and osborn IPA analysis
impact of chronic benign pain on patients’ self-concept
RQ: how pain affects feelings/attitudes
data: semi-struc interviews to patients of one clinic in England with chronic benign low back pain
analysis: 4 steps: initial observations, labelling themes, cluster of themes, summary table with descriptions and analyses
