Numbers and Narratives: Quantitative and Qualitative Convergence Across Constructivist Assessments

The Meaning of Childbearing Among IVF Service Users Assessed via Laddering Technique

“…Finally, although considerable time was spent with the average informant, the study by design did not attempt to trace meaning making or meaning reconstruction about childbearing or infertility across time or as a result of participation in or the outcome of particular procedures. It could therefore be valuable to use laddering and other constructivist measures with documented validity and reliability (Hardison & Neimeyer, 2007) to assess the vicissitudes of meaning making or the success of therapy to engender more viable meanings of adult life without children for those whose lives or choices preclude parenthood.…”

“…The inquiry into preferences continued until the informant began repeating responses or found it difficult to formulate a further construct. Neimeyer, Anderson, and Stockton (2001) provided validation of laddering as a measure of construct subsystems that move from relatively concrete choices or behaviors to constructs bearing on personal characteristics, values, and existential concerns (see also Hardison & Neimeyer, 2007). Both of these sources as well as Fransella (2003) offered a series of recommendations on the administration of laddering technique and guidelines for its interpretation.…”

Psychosocial Implications of Foreign Accent Syndrome: Two Case Examples

“…Bell (1990) defined a repertory grid as "a set of representations of the relationships between the set of things a person construes (the elements) and the set of ways that person construes them (the constructs)" (p. 26). In particular, the grid is well suited to the study of personal identity in a social field (Jankowicz, 2003;Neimeyer, 2009), and the patterns of relationships among constructs have demonstrated reliability and convergent validity in a number of studies (Dempsey & Neimeyer, 1995;Feixas et al, 1992;Hardison & Neimeyer, 2007).…”

“…Research on the content and reliability of constructs derived from the self-characterization demonstrates that it particularly elicits self-descriptions falling into relational, personal, and emotional categories; that it can be coded reliably by independent judges; and that the "cognitive complexity" of the description it elicits is relatively stable over time (Hardison & Neimeyer, 2007).…”

Revisión de la autocaracterización: una técnica narrativa constructivista

“…Según Kelly (1955), la autocaracterización permitía establecer hipótesis de partida, donde se reconociesen los recursos del individuo para modificar su propio sistema de construcción personal. Además, ha sido usada en diferentes fases del proceso terapéutico, tanto en etapas iniciales, como la diagnóstica, o finales, como la de seguimiento (Hardison y R. A. Neimeyer, 2007), así como para mejorar la alianza terapéutica (Crittenden y Ashkar, 2012).…”