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Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis: Theory, Method and Research
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Interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) is an increasingly popular approach to qualitative inquiry as discussed by the authors and a handy text covers its theoretical foundations and provides a detailed guide to conducting IPA research.Abstract:
Interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) is an increasingly popular approach to qualitative inquiry. This handy text covers its theoretical foundations and provides a detailed guide to conducting IPA research.
Extended worked examples from the authors' own studies in health, sexuality, psychological distress and identity illustrate the breadth and depth of IPA research.
Each of the chapters also offers a guide to other good exemplars of IPA research in the designated area. The final section of the book considers how IPA connects with other contemporary qualitative approaches like discourse and narrative analysis and how it addresses issues to do with validity. The book is written in an accessible style and will be extremely useful to students and researchers in psychology and related disciplines in the health and social sciences.read more
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Exploring Gay Couples’ Experience With Sexual Dysfunction After Radical Prostatectomy: A Qualitative Study
Mary-Ellen Hartman,Jane Irvine,Kristen L. Currie,Paul Ritvo,Lianne Trachtenberg,Alyssa S. Louis,John Trachtenberg,Leah Jamnicky,Andrew Matthew +8 more
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The Elicitation Interview Technique: Capturing People's Experiences of Data Representations
TL;DR: The potential of the Elicitation Interview technique to be applied in the context of visualization to help understand how people experience and interpret visualizations as part of exploration and data analysis processes is discussed.
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Using thematic analysis in psychology
Virginia Braun,Victoria Clarke +1 more
TL;DR: Thematic analysis is a poorly demarcated, rarely acknowledged, yet widely used qualitative analytic method within psychology as mentioned in this paper, and it offers an accessible and theoretically flexible approach to analysing qualitative data.
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TL;DR: Charmaz as mentioned in this paper presented a practical guide through qualitative analysis to construct grounded theory, using qualitative analysis, and showed that qualitative analysis can be used to understand grounded theory in a practical way.
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Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
Jonathan A. Smith,Mike Osborn +1 more
TL;DR: The aim of interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) is to explore in detail how participants are making sense of their personal and social world, and the main currency for an IPA study is the meanings particular experiences, events, states hold for participants as discussed by the authors.
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Dilemmas in qualitative health research
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the problem posed by the novelty and diversity of qualitative approaches within health psychology and consider the question of what criteria are appropriate for assessing the validity of a qualitative analysis.