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Qualitative psychological research
Summary
Qualitative psychological research is psychological research that employs qualitative methods.
Qualitative research methodologies are oriented towards developing an understanding of the meaning and experience dimensions of human lives and their social worlds. Good qualitative research is characterized by congruence between the perspective that informs the research questions and the research methods used.
Many techniques and methods join in qualitative research. Sullivan et al. (2018, p. 17) identify some commonly occurring features of qualitative research in Psychology:
A tendency to use relatively unstructured data (...);
An approach to theory that involves generating theories that are localised and context specific, rather than testing large-scale theories that seek to explain psychological process in all people (...);
A tendency to use data-analysis practices that seek out themes in the data (...);
A focus on language and the way things are represented in text (...);
An interest in the perspectives, sense-making and individual experiences of people (...).
The work of Yvonna Lincoln and Egon Guba is an example of a contribution to the field of qualitative research.
Conversation analysis is a type of qualitative research in the field of sociology.
Discourse analysis is type of qualitative research in the field of sociolinguistics.
Historical analysis is a type of qualitative research in the social sciences.
Grounded theory is a type of qualitative research in the social sciences.
According to Lederman, focus-grouping is a "technique that involves the use of profound group interviews in which participants are selected because they are a purposive sampling of a specific population, with the group being 'focused' on a given topic." According to Powell et al., a group of individuals selected and gathered by researchers to discuss and comment on, from personal experience, the topic that is the subject of the research form a focus-group.
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