Exploring and Expanding on Pluralism in Qualitative Research in Psychology

Frost, Nollaig; Nolas, Sevasti‐Melissa

doi:10.1080/14780887.2011.572728

Cited by 48 publications

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“…It would at least help to define the problem space (Barton, Corteen, Scott and Whyte, 2007) more accurately, which cannot be done if academics prize methodological detail too highly. When privileging methodological detail comes at the expense of paralysing empirical work altogether, the cost is too high and the methodological debate is in any case redundant (Eyre, 2014;Frost and Nolas, 2011).…”

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Influences and vulnerabilities in radicalised lone-actor terrorists

Peddell

Eyre

McManus

et al. 2016

International Journal of Police Science & Management

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The threat to national security from terrorists acting on their own initiative is a challenge for law enforcement and intelligence agencies in the UK and elsewhere. The UK Parliament’s 2014 threat assessment noted ‘a trend towards ‘low signature’ terrorism by small, self-directed groups and lone actors’ [House of Commons Home Affairs Committee (2014) Counter-Terrorism – Seventeenth Report of Session 2013–14]. Lone actors have become a higher priority for counter-terrorism professionals (UK police, Prevent practitioners and security agencies), but there is a paucity of research into the views and awareness of these professionals. This qualitative study examined how Prevent practitioners perceived the radicalisation and motivations of lone-actor terrorists they had encountered. Participants were an opportunity sample of five Prevent practitioners; all had served as police officers with varying employment backgrounds and counter-terrorism experience. A thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews identified perceived general characteristics of lone-actor radicalisation. Three themes clustering around the concept of becoming a terrorist are discussed: mechanisms of radicalisation, vulnerability to radical discourse, and individual motivation. Participants construed radicalisation as a process over time, accelerated in the presence of generalised criminality or extensive Internet use. Vulnerability was seen as inherent, as well as a product of social context. Participants adopted folk-psychological explanations with mental health problems, social isolation and relative deprivation cited as prominent vulnerability factors. Lone actors were seen as motivated by grievances (e.g. deprivation), pressure from external sources (e.g. rational prospectors) or personal reward (e.g. sensation-seeking). Practitioners’ perceptions of the process over time had parallels with a diathesis–stress model, although there was some support for social movement theory.

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Influences and vulnerabilities in radicalised lone-actor terrorists

Peddell

Eyre

McManus

et al. 2016

International Journal of Police Science & Management

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“…The use of participant diaries has been reported to be useful for developing an insight into a particular event, perspective or set of ideas (Iida, Shrout, Laurenceau & Bolger, 2012). The benefits of adopting more than one method of data generation to be used with the same participants has been shown to be beneficial particularly with regards to obtaining a robust understanding of participant experiences (Bowes-Catton, 2015; Daly, 2018;Frost, & Nolas, 2011).…”

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confidence: 99%

‘Femme it Up or Dress it Down’: Appearance and Bisexual Women in Monogamous Relationships

Daly

King

Yeadon‐Lee

2018

Journal of Bisexuality

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This paper reports on findings from a qualitative study into the lived experience of bisexual women in monogamous relationships. Nineteen selfidentified bisexual women from across the UK, who were either in a monogamous relationship or desired to be in one, were explored. Participants completed diaries and took part in telephone interviews. The data was analysed using Template Analysis (King, 2004) which identified themes from the data set. It appeared that women in different-gender relationships choose appearance markers that could be classed as lesbian orientated in a bid to illuminate their bisexuality. Women in same-gender relationships were more likely to opt for feminine appearance signifiers in a bid to avoid being identified as a lesbian based solely on their appearance. The study suggests that the gender of participants' partners matters with regards to their appearance decisions. However, despite the apparent influence of their partner's gender, bisexual women demonstrated a degree of flexibility and fluidity in their appearance choices.

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“…Recent advances in qualitative methodologies have suggested that pluralistic qualitative analysis, whereby the same data set is analysed using different qualitative techniques, can help to enrich our understanding and produce multi-layered and multi-dimensional conclusions (Frost & Nolas, 2011). As we sought to explore the data fully, to develop an understanding of both challenges and how they influence decision processing, a pluralistic approach was adopted by conducting both thematic and grounded theory analyses.…”

Section: Data Analysesmentioning

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Redundant deliberation about negative consequences: Decision inertia in emergency responders.

Power

Alison

2017

Psychology, Public Policy, and Law

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Major emergencies are high-stakes, ambiguous, dynamic and stressful events. Emergency response commanders rely on their expertise and training to mitigate these factors and implement action. The Critical Decision Method was used to interview n=31 commanders from the Police (n=12), Fire and Rescue (n=15) and Ambulance Services (n=4) in the UK about challenges to decision making. Transcripts were analysed in two ways: (i) using thematic analyses to categorise the challenges to incident command; and (ii) grounded theory to develop a theoretical understanding of how challenges influenced decision processing. There were nine core challenges to incident command, themed into two categories: (i) those relating to the perceived characteristics of the incident itself; and (ii) those relating to uncertainties about (inter)personal dynamics of the team(s) responding. Consideration of challenges featured prominently in decision makers' prospective modelling, especially when thinking about goal accomplishment (i.e., 'What if I deploy now? What if I don't?'). Commanders were motivated to 'save life' (attack/approach goal), yet also sought to 'prevent harm' (defend/avoid goal). Challenges led commanders to redundantly deliberate about what to do; their prospective modelling was related to the anticipation of potential negative consequences that might arise both for acting (attack) and not acting (defend). Commanders identified this difficult trade-off, yet described how experience and their 'responsibility as a commander' gave them confidence to overcome decision inertia. Future research is needed to identify whether decision making training on how to anticipate and overcome difficult cognitive trade-offs would lead to more flexible and expedient commanding. 1

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Exploring and Expanding on Pluralism in Qualitative Research in Psychology

Cited by 48 publications

References 17 publications

Influences and vulnerabilities in radicalised lone-actor terrorists

Influences and vulnerabilities in radicalised lone-actor terrorists

‘Femme it Up or Dress it Down’: Appearance and Bisexual Women in Monogamous Relationships

Redundant deliberation about negative consequences: Decision inertia in emergency responders.

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