Student mental health nurses’ understanding of recovery: A phenomenographic study

Phenomenography: A useful methodology for midwifery research

“…The focus in phenomenographic analysis is on eliciting the collective meaning and revealing variation in how the phenomenon is experienced. It is considered important that the collective conceptions of all the interviews are considered (Gabriel, 2021); this involves selecting, comparing, and grouping significant statements within the interview transcripts, gradually shifting from individual transcripts to constructing a collective pool which brings together all the differing understandings of the phenomenon (Watson & Reimann, 2021). As all transcripts are brought together, the final categories of description do not necessarily represent individual respondents but instead are related to what is known as the ‘pool of meanings’ (Marton, 1988).…”

“…Phenomenography rejects these opposing dualist views of an outer world (objectivism) and an inner world (subjectivism); instead, it upholds a non‐dualistic ontology, asserting that these worlds are related through an individual's awareness of the world and their experience of it (McClenny, 2020). Put simply this means that the object and subject cannot be separated, there is only one world, but people will experience it differently and cannot be seen as separate from their experiences (Watson & Reimann, 2021). Ontologically the phenomenographic researcher accepts that there is more than one way of experiencing the world, which can be understood through an individual's awareness (Rolls, 2023); the phenomenographer seeks to describe and map these variations in understanding with the key assumption being that individual experiences will be logically related when the phenomena they experience are the same (Åkerlind, 2012).…”