Focusing on “A Day in the Life”: An Activity-Based Method for the Qualitative Analysis of Psychological Phenomena

Carral, María del Río

doi:10.1080/14780887.2014.902525

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“…Data collection will map detailed information about everyday life practices (del Rio Carral, 2014;del Rio Carral & Lyons, 2020), by translating the 'know how', and taken for granted, dimension of activity into discursive data or 'say how' (del Rio Carral, 2014). The interviews will cover detailed accounts on contextualized everyday behaviors produced by each participant, as well as meanings and feelings attached to them.…”

Section: Ethics and Disseminationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Young Women’s Experiences of Health and Well-Being in a Postfeminist Social Media Culture: The MeStories Study Protocol

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Rabel

Franzoni

et al. 2022

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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Introduction: To date, there is much controversy in the literature on the impacts of social media use on young women’s health and wellbeing. Alongside the massive popularity of platforms like Instagram and TikTok, the social media culture has become a key mediator of social discourses on health, femininities, bodies, and identities. In contemporary Western societies, the individual pursuit of health is highly valued, related to contemporary forms of governance that emphasize self-regulation, individual responsibility, and individual choice. Furthermore, postfeminist discourses strongly encourage women to engage in constant work on their body, health, and identity. In this context, it is imperative to understand how the contemporary social media culture relates to young women’s health, body, and sense of self. Aims: The overall aim of this study is to understand the role of a new social media culture on narrative constructions of a sense of self among young women in late adolescence, aged 18–20 years old, and, particularly the ways in which such narrative identities relate to experiences and practices involving health and wellbeing. Methods: In this 3-year research we adopt a social constructionist approach in critical health psychology focused on socio-culturally situated practices and meanings involved in the construction of human experience. We adopt a qualitative research approach - consisting of in-depth interviews, focus groups and photo elicitation techniques - with people self-identifying as women. Data analysis will employ both narrative and reflexive thematic analysis. Ethics and dissemination: The study protocol was approved by the Ethics Committee of the University of Lausanne. Findings will be published in scientific journals, presented at meetings, and will serve for public health and educational purposes. Content in form of flyers and posts will be designed to communicate findings to participants via current social media platforms.

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Young Women’s Experiences of Health and Well-Being in a Postfeminist Social Media Culture: The MeStories Study Protocol

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Rabel

Franzoni

et al. 2022

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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“…For example, activity-based interview approaches, such as walking interviews (J. Evans & Jones, 2011), can contribute to a dynamic, contextual, and holistic method of qualitative inquiry (Burns et al, 2020; del Rio Carral, 2014; Hashim & Jones, 2007). Activity-based strategies also relate to ‘boundary work’, and more specifically, ‘boundary objects’, which are activities or items that can facilitate cooperation and enable individuals to share knowledge across cultural and social boundaries (MacMynowski, 2007; Zurba & Berkes, 2014; Zurba et al, 2019).…”

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Moving images, Moving Methods: Advancing Documentary Film for Qualitative Research

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Cunsolo

Mauro

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International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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With the widespread use of digital media as a tool for documentation, creation, preservation, and sharing of audio-visual content, new strategies are required to deal with this type of “data” for research and analysis purposes. This article describes and advances the methodological process of using documentary film as a strategy for qualitative inquiry. Insights are drawn from a multimedia study that explored Inuit-caribou relationships in Labrador, Canada, through the co-production of community-based, research-oriented, participatory documentary film work. Specifically, we outline: 1) the influence of documentary film on supporting the project conceptualization and collaboration with diverse groups of people; 2) the strength of conducting filmed interviews for in-depth data collection, while recognizing how place and activities are intimately connected to participant perspectives; and 3) a new and innovative analytical approach that uses video software to examine qualitative data, keep participants connected to their knowledge, and simultaneously work toward creating high impact storytelling outputs. The flexibility and capacity of documentary film to mobilize knowledge and intentionally create research outputs for specific target audiences is also discussed. Continued and future integration of documentary film into qualitative research is recommended for creatively enhancing our abilities to not only produce strong, rich, and dynamic research outputs, but also simultaneously to explore and communicate diverse knowledges, experiences, and stories.

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“…3 Rather, it organises psychological phenomena. By engaging in activity, individuals are oriented by values, norms, rules, and constraints that they constantly interpret through meaning to seize opportunities, and by doing this, they transform their social reality (del Rio Carral 2014;Malrieu 1989;Vygotsky 1999). This process is not equivalent to internalisation because this would suppose that human beings are fully prepared to process values and norms conveyed by a given society.…”

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Interpretation of Data in Psychology: A False Problem, a True Issue

Carral¹,

Santiago-Delefosse²

2015

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In psychology, the concept of interpretation has been namely associated to the subjectivist paradigm underpinning qualitative approaches, rather than the objectivist paradigm characterising quantitative research. In this article, we challenge this belief by showing how interpretation concerns psychology as a whole. To do this, the authors will first consider some dominant tendencies characterising the psychological field in general, such as the "empiricist illusion" and the "trap of scientism" (Vygotsky 1999). Moreover, they will introduce the cultural perspective in psychology, pertinent to deconstruct several assumptions regarding research within the discipline. Stemming from this approach, "indirect methods" will be presented with regard to their potential to analyse psychological phenomena both qualitatively and scientifically. They will conclude by describing a set of principles that can be implemented when doing qualitative research as to ensure the quality and the adequacy of interpretation.

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Focusing on “A Day in the Life”: An Activity-Based Method for the Qualitative Analysis of Psychological Phenomena

Cited by 12 publications

References 22 publications

Young Women’s Experiences of Health and Well-Being in a Postfeminist Social Media Culture: The MeStories Study Protocol

Young Women’s Experiences of Health and Well-Being in a Postfeminist Social Media Culture: The MeStories Study Protocol

Moving images, Moving Methods: Advancing Documentary Film for Qualitative Research

Interpretation of Data in Psychology: A False Problem, a True Issue

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