Vignette Research Agostini, Evi; Schratz, Michael; Eloff, Irma
2024
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Open access
This open access book introduces vignette research to new and experienced researchers by guiding them through its history, theory and underlying principles before delving into step-by-step practical ...guidance on how to do vignette research. Vignette research is an innovative qualitative, narrative and phenomenological research methodology that has gained international recognition, sparking interest from a wide range of individuals and institutions in global contexts. Vignettes are concise narratives, which capture human experiences in real life settings. They reveal surprising or intriguing facets and intangible moments. The experiential narratives resonate with readers and reduce the distance between the researcher and the researched. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC-BY 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).
This study identified and classify the phenomenon of student purchasing behavior during the pandemic, which falls into the category of excessive consumption due to their lack of financial literacy ...and the presence of e-commerce, which offers numerous attractive offers, giving them the opportunity to become uncontrollable consumers without proper financial planning. This study used a phenomenological approach and determines students from five private universities in Medan City as key informants capable of providing concrete information in response to this research question. The study’s results revealed students become more consumptive during pandemics, and that learning conditions at home with technology increase their likelihood of accessing social media, which leads to e-commerce, which offers many online shopping promotions. They spend irresponsibly, to the point where they can’t even keep count of how much money they spent in a single month during the pandemic. Some even claimed to be in debt as a result of the payment deferral feature offered by e-commerce, which allows them to continue purchasing the desired product. They lack financial preparation and are unaware of the dangers associated with the presence of e-commerce if not accompanied by common sense while making a purchase. We require further attention and assistance from the government and educational institutions, as well as parental support, in order to educate pupils about financial literacy in order to attain a prosperous future life.
The study explored psychologists' experiences in delivering short‐term psychotherapy for suicidal adolescents and sought to clarify how these experiences fit with empirically supported interventions ...and the interpersonal psychological theory of suicide. Semistructured interviews were conducted with 12 psychologists' who provided short‐term psychotherapy in a suicide prevention programme for youth (12‐ to 25‐year‐olds). Interview transcripts were analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis. Three superordinate themes were identified: (i) understand the experience and context of the suicidality and the importance of a formulation‐based approach to engagement and individualized treatment planning; (ii) involve broad support systems, and in particular families, to help the young person reduce feelings of burdensomeness and increase safety, connectedness and belonging; and (iii) improve affect regulation and reflective functioning, important not only for the young person but also for the support system to maximize the positive impact of supports via emotional coregulation and effective problem‐solving. Interventions and approaches as well as the potential underlying processes of change being targeted are discussed in light of these findings. As an example, the development of a suicide safety plan was an intervention that traversed these themes. When used as a process tool, it helped foster a collaborative, formulation, dimensional and biopsychosocial approach to treat psychopathology and suicidality and extended beyond the therapist–client dyad. Moreover, treatment needs to be extended beyond the therapist–client dyad to allow therapists to facilitate a systemic treatment response, as this was seen as a major component of interventions for suicidal youth.
In this book, Scott D. Churchill introduces readers to existential phenomenological research, an approach that explores a comprehensive, embodied knowledge of subjective human life that reflects a ...person's values, goals, ideals, intents, emotions, and relationships. This approach helps researchers understand people’s and needs by identifying and resolving theoretical and ideological misconceptions. In this book, Churchill defines important aspects of EPR as: a method based on empirical data for evaluating the mental life of individuals. In this case, the researchers are concerned with the evidence and access to it, which is based on first-person narratives of experience and the researchers' reflections on those experiences, as well as encouraging the researchers' sensory sensitivity and a sense of empathy, curiosity, and excitement in of human experience.
Hermeneutic phenomenology, as a methodology, is not fixed. Inherent in its enactment are contested areas of practice such as how interview data are used and reported. Using philosophical notions ...drawn from hermeneutic phenomenological literature, we argue that working with crafted stories is congruent with the philosophical underpinnings of this methodology. We consider how the practical ontic undertaking of story crafting from verbatim transcripts is integral with the interpretive process. We show how verbatim transcripts can be crafted into stories through examples taken from interview data. Our aim is to open dialogue with other hermeneutic phenomenological researchers and offer alternate possibilities to conventional ways of work with qualitative data. We argue that crafted stories can provide glimpses of phenomena that other forms of data analysis and presentation may leave hidden. We contend that crafted stories are an acceptable and trustworthy methodological device.
This paper suggests that interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) is a valuable research method for coaching research. The paper positions coaching as a social activity and highlights its ...subjective and contextual nature. It aims to establish clear guidance by drawing on both the author's recent research experience and others' scholarly work. The author encourages scholars with a similar interest (phenomenology, hermeneutics, ideography) to explore IPA as a potential methodology for coaching research. The clearly laid out guidance here on how to conduct an IPA study will be attractive to the wider qualitative research community. The paper contributes to coaching research by promoting IPA as a methodology that helps to develop subjective understanding within the field.
Introduction
Despite being recognised as a key physician competency, leadership development is an area of improvement especially in undergraduate medical education. We sought to explore the lived ...experience of leaders who served in elected, representative roles during their time in medical school.
Methods
We used a hermeneutic phenomenological approach to uncover the essence of the medical student leader experience. From late 2020 to early 2021, we interviewed 12 medical residents who served in elected leadership roles from 2015 to 2019. Each participant graduated from a different Canadian medical school. We deliberately chose a limited and historic time period in order for participants to be able to reflect on their past experiences while accounting for differences in the medical student leadership experience over time. We then engaged in a reflexive thematic analysis to generate the final themes.
Results
We identified the following five themes: (i) living with busyness, (ii) the role of faculty mentorship and support, (iii) competing demands of leadership, (iv) medical student leadership as enriching and (v) creating better physicians. Though demanding, medical student leadership was found to be rewarding and particularly key in the development of a more well‐rounded physician. Furthermore, being well supported by faculty contributed to an overall positive leadership experience.
Discussion
In addition to describing the hardships and rewards that make up their experience, this study suggests that medical student leadership can enhance core physician competencies. The findings also support the notion that faculties have an important role to play in supporting medical student leaders.
.@HG_Annan, @VDoTweets & @ammacleod take a deep dive into the lives of medical student leaders, exploring the successes and challenges of their experiences and the role medical faculties play in shaping them.
Every aspect of research engages the body in some way.
In this article the researchers discuss the epistemological challenges of engaging with lived experiences and the opportunities and challenges ...that arise in conjunction with the embodied aspects of interviewing, analysis and turning visual and oral research material into written text.
The authors draw on experience from interviewing and reflect on how phenomenological philosophy of the body can both challenge and contribute to unpacking the role of the body in research processes.
Research on patients' experience of illness provides examples of how bodily experiences are intersubjective and subjective explored. The authors discuss how to let the bodily spoken contribute to the knowledge creation by "taking the body with them" in all parts of the research process.
The article contributes with theoretical perspectives and highlights intercorporeal and inter-affective bodily communication as an essential element in physiotherapy research practice.
Researchers in the field of health psychology developed interpretive phenomenological analysis (IPA) to explore how individuals make sense of, and meaning from, experiences of personal significance. ...We describe our approach to using IPA to explore whether current theories of achievement motivation adequately account for the experiences of students with disabilities, and expand the theories so that they do. First, we describe how our substantive area of interest is situated within the field of educational psychology. Next, we provide an overview of IPA, including the philosophical roots, general protocol, indicators of quality, and potential challenges. Finally, we suggest ways that IPA could be used to advance the study of achievement motivation toward more equitable ends.
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