The past and present of triangulation and social representations theory: A crossed history

Caillaud, Sabine; Doumergue, Marjolaine; Préau, Marie; Haas, Valérie de; Kalampalikis, Nikos

doi:10.1080/14780887.2019.1605272

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“…In addition, by treating the texts in multiple ways, we problematize the notion that social behaviour inherently requires a qualitative or quantitative mode of inquiry. Likewise, our research evidences the value in always remaining committed to the research question throughout the research process, and in particular, creatively drawing on the complementary types of analyses to contribute to gaps in understanding (Caillaud et al, 2019). However, we acknowledge that this might not always be feasible and will likely be constrained by aspects such as ethics approval, sample sizes calculations and the experimental procedures involved.…”

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confidence: 78%

Where does research design fall short? Mental health related‐stigma as example

Walsh

Foster

2022

J Theory Soc Behav

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Efforts to challenge mental health‐related stigma have been limited by an insufficient conceptualization of the problem space. As is common in health communication, practitioners have neglected the multiple tacit understandings the public embody in everyday life. Using the example of our recent research into the public’s social representations of mental health and illness, in this paper, we will work through the theoretical‐methodological considerations involved in how we approached expanding the problem space. Using social theory, we tailored thematic analysis and natural language processing techniques to examine the public’s polyphasic sense‐making processes. The approach is novel, as it diverges from standard methods in understanding health communication and the possibilities for behaviour change. Instead, we root our approach in a dynamic and relational epistemology to iteratively reveal in greater complexity some of the contents and processes that sustain mental health‐related stigma.

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Section: Final Remarksmentioning

confidence: 78%

Where does research design fall short? Mental health related‐stigma as example

Walsh

Foster

2022

J Theory Soc Behav

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“…The results clearly highlight the different tensions underpinning the construction of SR of psychology and psychologists in different in-between spaces (study 1 and 2) and how these tensions evolve when the two in-between spaces come together (study 3). The study thus engages with both the content and the dynamic of SR. On a methodological level, this article also illustrates (1) how SRT can actively contribute to the development of methodological triangulation (resorting to the wind-rose model offers a way to theoretically combine results from different methods); and (2) how methodological triangulation can strengthen SRT (here by articulating the content and the dynamic of SR, Caillaud et al, 2019).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 98%

Social representations of psychology: When paradoxes become a strength

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Haas

Drozda‐Senkowska

2021

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This article investigates the understanding by different groups of what psychology is and what psychologists do. We first recall some of the tensions that fuelled the discipline and underpinned its institutionalization in France. Then, drawing on social representations (SR) theory and on the wind-rose model, we explore how SR of psychology and of the psychologist are developed in two different groups and when these groups come together. The first study shows how future psychologists construct, during their studies, a paradoxical understanding of the discipline and of the profession, which echoes some historical tensions: they neither abandon common-sense ideas, nor do they integrate the different psychological dimensions to develop a global approach to the person. The second study, conducted in a context of legal innovation faced by multi-professional teams in charge of assessing disabilities, shows how very different representations of the discipline and of the profession are developed in order to serve local power relationships. Finally, the third study looks at SR constructed through psychological practices by analyzing reports written by psychologists and addressed to these teams. Through their writings, psychologists reconstruct historical tensions, but they also strategically emphasize the different facets of the discipline depending on the issue at play. Thus, when they address these teams with various representations of the discipline and diverse expectations of psychologists, the tensions structuring psychology may become a strength and serve their legitimacy. All in all, the social representations of psychology and of the psychologist appears as a dynamic and interactive process.

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“…Also, single items scales present a limitation related primarily to their content validity and reliability (Aiken, 1980). Thus, future research based on methodological triangulation might contribute to increase the ecological validity of applied research conducted in post-terrorist contexts, and the comprehension of psychosocial processes that occur in complex societal contexts (Caillaud, Doumergue, Préau, Haas, & Kalampalikis, 2019;Flick, 1992).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Meaning-making and rumour-mongering in the shadow of terrorism: The case of the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris

Pelletier

Drozda‐Senkowska

2019

J. Soc. Polit. Psych.

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The January 7, 2015 Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack in Paris shattered French civilians’ sense of security and also their sense of the surrounding world. This quasi-longitudinal study investigates the temporal dynamics of meaning-making and rumour-mongering processes of French civilians (N = 161) in a real-world, post-terrorist context. The present study was conducted via questionnaire at three points in time (i.e. one week, one month and two months) following the January 7, 2015 terrorist attack in Paris. In line with the social stage model of collective coping with disasters (Pennebaker & Harber, 1993), the main results suggest that participants’ coping process of searching for meaning decreased progressively over the two-month period. However, participants’ finding the presence of meaning as an outcome did not differ across time. Moreover, participants’ belief in rumours and official information was stable over the two-month period. Such findings point to the importance of considering the temporal perspective in order to provide a better understanding of laypeople’s symbolic responses to terrorism.

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The past and present of triangulation and social representations theory: A crossed history

Cited by 24 publications

References 29 publications

Where does research design fall short? Mental health related‐stigma as example

Where does research design fall short? Mental health related‐stigma as example

Social representations of psychology: When paradoxes become a strength

Meaning-making and rumour-mongering in the shadow of terrorism: The case of the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris

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