Adrian Coyle
Biographic Data
| ID | 221324 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adrian Coyle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adrian |
| FAMILY NAME | Coyle |
| SIGNATURE | COYLE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Surrey |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5340-9817 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 147 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Analysing Qualitative Data in Psychology, 2nd edition
Alternative ‘Lives Matter’ formulations in online discussions about Black Lives Matter: Use, support and resistance
Throughout its history, the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement has elicited strong opposition that risks stifling anti-racist progress. This paper examines how support for BLM is argued about and challenged in online settings, focussing on the use of alternative ‘Lives Matter’ hashtags and slogans. BLM and anti-BLM material from 2020 was identified across six online platforms, which generated 1242 data items. Data were subjected to discourse analy…
Analysing Qualitative Data in Psychology
Risk of sexual violence against women and girls’ in the construction of ‘gender-neutral toilets’: A discourse analysis of comments on YouTube videos
This article considers how the risk of sexual violence against women and girls is topicalised in social media interaction about ‘gender-neutral toilets’. In particular, it examines how versions of the category of ‘transgender people’ are assigned a key role within the construction of sexual violence risk. A discursive analysis is presented of 1,756 online comments in response to ten YouTube videos relating to gender-neutral toilets. The analysis …
Sensitive Issues, Complex Categories, and Sharing Festivals: Malay Muslim Students’ Perspectives on Interfaith Engagement in Malaysia
Within the religiously and ethnically diverse secular state of Malaysia, the ethnic and religious identities of the Malay Muslim majority group are constitutionalized. This, together with the official classification of religious issues as “sensitive,” provides a distinctive context for the political psychological analysis of Islam and interfaith relations. The qualitative study presented in this article examines how Malay Muslims who are students…
Toward a Framework for Islamic Psychology and Psychotherapy: An Islamic Model of the Soul
A uniquely Islamic theoretical framework for an Islamic psychology has yet to be established. To do so requires that we understand how human beings are conceptualized within the cosmology that characterizes the Islamic tradition. This paper presents a model of the soul from within an Islamic paradigm, generated through a grounded theory analysis of interviews with 18 key informants with relevant academic or religious expertise. The model elaborat…
Time, space, power, and the liminal transformation of the psychologised “self ”
Drawing on the concept of liminality, we provide an alternative language for understanding how time, space, and power intersect to impact upon the relationship that individuals hold with themselves as “self.” A historical (re)contextualisation is presented that traces the genesis of a notable development in British war-time psychiatry, the “Northfield experiments,” to its contemporary parallels in the democratic therapeutic community in prisons a…
An idiographic analysis of women’s accounts of living with mental health conditions in Haredi Jewish communities
This research examines the reported experiences of women who developed mental health conditions while they were members of Haredi Jewish communities. The research focuses on how their communities responded and how these responses affected their self-evaluations and relationships with their communities. A qualitative, idiographic approach was used. Four women were recruited through mental health charities and an online group for former community m…
“I thought they should know… that daddy is not completely gone”: A Case Study of Sense-of-Presence Experiences in Bereavement and Family Meaning-Making
This study aimed to explore the experiences, responses, and conceptualizations of sense of presence experiences in bereavement in terms of family meaning-making. A case study framework was chosen, using group and individual interviews and ethnographically derived observations in a father-bereaved family in the south of England. Interview data were analyzed by applying both phenomenological and social constructionist perspectives to the same data …
The cigarette box as an advertising vehicle in the United Kingdom: A case for plain packaging
This research aimed to study tobacco advertising between 1950-2003 and to evaluate the role of the cigarette box in advertising. Tobacco company advertisements ( n = 204) were coded for content and meanings used to promote their product. There was a significant shift from cigarettes being displayed to the cigarette box only. Changes in advertising and the meanings evoked were unrelated to changes in smoking behaviour. It is argued that the cigare…
The governing of the self/the self-governing self: Multi-rater/source feedback and practices 1940–2011
This article argues for a more critical contextualisation of multi-rater/source feedback mechanisms applying Foucault’s conceptual template of technologies of objectification and subjectivity/self, as they relate to a mode of “self” government that is intricately entwined with psychological knowledge and expertise. An in-depth genealogical analysis is presented that traces the genesis of two prominent forms of multi-rater/source feedback mechanis…
“They never listen”: Towards a grounded theory of the role played by trusted adults in the spiritual lives of children
This qualitative study addresses the lack of research into the role of trusted adults in the spiritual lives of children. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with nine children from a British primary school and the data analysed using a grounded theory approach. Six categories were identified outlining the reciprocal relationship of unavailability and withholding between children and their trusted adults and how children made sense of spiri…
Threat, Victimhood, and Peace: Debating the 2011PalestinianUNState Membership Bid
TheIsraeli-Palestinian conflict has been described as one of the most intractable in the world. This article first provides an overview of the sociopolitical events that led up to thePalestinianUNstate membership bid inSeptember 2011, and second, as a case study, it examines how theIsraeli-Palestinian conflict was constructed in speeches delivered byPalestinianPresidentMahmoudAbbas andIsraeliPrimeMinisterBenjaminNetanyahu regarding the state memb…
The Relationship between Adomnán of Iona’s Life of St Columba and Celtic Christianity/Spirituality
The Life of St Columba offers an account of events in the life of the sixth-century saint who founded an influential monastic community with strong connections to the peoples of Ireland and Scotland. The text’s relationship to the categories of ‘Celtic Christianity’ and ‘Celtic spirituality’ is critically examined. It is deemed justifiable to locate the Life within these categories because it manifests features of other religious texts produced b…
QMiP workshop: Maximising the impact of qualitative psychological research on health
Critical Responses to Faith Development Theory: A Useful Agenda for Change
Since it was first presented, James Fowler's faith development theory has proven influential in pastoral care and counselling, pastoral and practical theology, spiritual direction, and Christian education. However, it has also been subject to substantial critical evaluation. This article reviews the major themes within psychological critiques and considers the agenda provided by these critiques for the theory's future development. Critical themes…
The Social Psychology of Religion: Current Research Themes
In the Western world in recent years, concerns about the (potential and actual) social and political implications of the rise of ‘fundamentalist Islam’ have seen a range of questions being raised and culturally debated concerning the social risk/value of Islam in particular and religion in general and its role within the state. These debates have often become polarized, with anti-religious definitive positions attracting considerable attention, m…
Sense of Presence Experiences and Meaning-Making in Bereavement: A Qualitative Analysis
This qualitative study aimed to explore the potential role that might be played by the reported experience of "sensing the presence of the deceased" in meaning-making processes in bereavement. Semistructured interviews were conducted with 12 participants who reported having had such an experience and the transcripts were subjected to thematic analysis. Seven overarching themes were identified, 3 of which were considered central: finding benefit i…
Can “sense of presence” experiences in bereavement be conceptualised as spiritual phenomena
This article explores the possibility of conceptualising the frequently occurring experience of “sensing the presence of the deceased” in bereavement as a spiritual phenomenon and examines how such a conceptualisation can be related to two recent perspectives in the field of bereavement research, “continuing bonds” and “meaning-making.” It is argued that “sense of presence” experiences are expressions of the continuing relationship with the decea…
“Arabic is the language of the Muslims–that's how it was supposed to be”: Exploring language and religious identity through reflective accounts from young British-born South Asians
This study explores how a group of young British-born South Asians understood and defined their religious and linguistic identities, focusing upon the role played by heritage languages and liturgical languages and by religious socialisation. Twelve British-born South Asians were interviewed using a semi-structured interview schedule. Interview transcripts were subjected to interpretative phenomenological analysis. Four superordinate themes are re…
‘My language, my people’: Language and ethnic identity among British‐born South Asians
This study explores how a group of second generation Asians (SGA) understood and defined language, focusing upon the role they perceived language to have played in their identity. Twelve SGA were interviewed and the data were subjected to qualitative thematic analysis. Four superordinate themes are reported, entitled ‘Mother tongue and self’, ‘A sense of ownership and affiliation’, ‘Negotiating linguistic identities in social space’ and ‘The ques…
Qualitative Research and Anomalous Experience: A Call for Interpretative Pluralism
This commentary reviews the status that the articles in this special issue accord to the data which they analyse. Consideration is given to the benefits of adopting a pluralist interpretative approach within qualitative research on anomalous experiences, that is, applying different methodological approaches and epistemological, ontological, and theoretical positions to the same data. This analytic stance is illustrated with reference to data from…
Discourses of Friendship between Heterosexual Women and Gay Men: Mythical Norms and an Absence of Desire
Gay men and heterosexual women may share some common interests in critiquing hetero-patriarchy. However feminism and gay liberationist politics do not always coincide and the role of individual subjectivities in recognising oppressive discourses of normativity remains debated. Interviews were conducted with seven friendship dyads of heterosexual women and gay men. Transcripts were subjected to discourse analysis, which suggested extensive managem…
Qualitative Methods and ‘the (Partly) Ineffable’ in Psychological Research on Religion and Spirituality
Historically, religious and spiritual issues have been marginalized within academic psychology. Even with the advent of the psychology of religion, some important research topics and questions have remained marginalized because of the domain's enthusiastic embrace of a positivist-empiricist framework. This article considers what qualitative methods can offer psychological research on religion and spirituality, focusing on the challenges of explor…
Analysing Qualitative Data in Psychology
The rhetoric of acculturation: When integration means assimilation
Viewing traditional acculturation literature through a social constructionist lens, the present paper identifies a number of limitations with this research. A discourse analytic approach to acculturation is offered as a means of addressing some of these issues. Drawing on examples taken from British print media debate surrounding the issue of faith schooling in the UK, an analysis is presented which illustrates the manner in which, though optimal…
Decision‐making in planned lesbian parenting: An interpretative phenomenological analysis
Although lesbian parenting has attracted much research attention within psychology in the US and the UK, the processes by which lesbian couples make the various decisions associated with parenting have been largely overlooked as an explicit research focus. This article presents findings from a qualitative study with nine lesbian couples in Britain who had had children within their current relationships. Interview transcripts were subjected to int…
Troubled Men and Threatening Women: The Construction of `Crisis' in Male Mental Health
In recent years, the development of an apparent `crisis' in male well-being (and, more specifically, in male mental health) has become a focus of media and academic interest. This crisis has been linked to disruptions in the traditional system of gender relations, with men being problematically positioned within a changed social context, especially in relation to issues of emotion. In this study, articles on men's health in a British broadsheet n…
Sense of Presence Experiences and Meaning-Making in Bereavement: A Qualitative Analysis
This qualitative study aimed to explore the potential role that might be played by the reported experience of "sensing the presence of the deceased" in meaning-making processes in bereavement. Semistructured interviews were conducted with 12 participants who reported having had such an experience and the transcripts were subjected to thematic analysis. Seven overarching themes were identified, 3 of which were considered central: finding benefit i…
Using the Counselling Interview To Collect Research Data on Sensitive Topics
In interview-based research on sensitive health-related topics, the interview may restimulate painful memories among respondents who may become distressed. It is ethically questionable for researchers to address sensitive issues without being equipped to deal with resultant distress. An effective way of addressing this problem is for interviewers to foster counselling attributes and use counselling skills within research interviews. This fulfils …
Alternative ‘Lives Matter’ formulations in online discussions about Black Lives Matter: Use, support and resistance
Throughout its history, the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement has elicited strong opposition that risks stifling anti-racist progress. This paper examines how support for BLM is argued about and challenged in online settings, focussing on the use of alternative ‘Lives Matter’ hashtags and slogans. BLM and anti-BLM material from 2020 was identified across six online platforms, which generated 1242 data items. Data were subjected to discourse analy…
Discourses of Friendship between Heterosexual Women and Gay Men: Mythical Norms and an Absence of Desire
Gay men and heterosexual women may share some common interests in critiquing hetero-patriarchy. However feminism and gay liberationist politics do not always coincide and the role of individual subjectivities in recognising oppressive discourses of normativity remains debated. Interviews were conducted with seven friendship dyads of heterosexual women and gay men. Transcripts were subjected to discourse analysis, which suggested extensive managem…
Qualitative Methods and ‘the (Partly) Ineffable’ in Psychological Research on Religion and Spirituality
Historically, religious and spiritual issues have been marginalized within academic psychology. Even with the advent of the psychology of religion, some important research topics and questions have remained marginalized because of the domain's enthusiastic embrace of a positivist-empiricist framework. This article considers what qualitative methods can offer psychological research on religion and spirituality, focusing on the challenges of explor…
Towards an understanding of British public attitudes concerning human cloning
Social psychological perspectives on lesbian and gay issues in Europe: The state of the art
VII. Representing Gay Men with HIV/Aids
Clinical psychologists' attitudes to lesbians
This study begins the process of examining clinical psychologists' competence in dealing with lesbian clients by assessing their attitudes to lesbians and lesbianism. Attitudinal questionnaires were sent to 200 chartered clinical psychologists and 69 (34.5%) were returned. Respondents displayed generally positive attitudes, with only two out of 12 attitudinal items failing to attract attitudinally positive responses from more than three‐quarters …
Sensitive Issues, Complex Categories, and Sharing Festivals: Malay Muslim Students’ Perspectives on Interfaith Engagement in Malaysia
Within the religiously and ethnically diverse secular state of Malaysia, the ethnic and religious identities of the Malay Muslim majority group are constitutionalized. This, together with the official classification of religious issues as “sensitive,” provides a distinctive context for the political psychological analysis of Islam and interfaith relations. The qualitative study presented in this article examines how Malay Muslims who are students…
The cigarette box as an advertising vehicle in the United Kingdom: A case for plain packaging
This research aimed to study tobacco advertising between 1950-2003 and to evaluate the role of the cigarette box in advertising. Tobacco company advertisements ( n = 204) were coded for content and meanings used to promote their product. There was a significant shift from cigarettes being displayed to the cigarette box only. Changes in advertising and the meanings evoked were unrelated to changes in smoking behaviour. It is argued that the cigare…
Threat, Victimhood, and Peace: Debating the 2011PalestinianUNState Membership Bid
TheIsraeli-Palestinian conflict has been described as one of the most intractable in the world. This article first provides an overview of the sociopolitical events that led up to thePalestinianUNstate membership bid inSeptember 2011, and second, as a case study, it examines how theIsraeli-Palestinian conflict was constructed in speeches delivered byPalestinianPresidentMahmoudAbbas andIsraeliPrimeMinisterBenjaminNetanyahu regarding the state memb…
The Social Psychology of Religion: Current Research Themes
In the Western world in recent years, concerns about the (potential and actual) social and political implications of the rise of ‘fundamentalist Islam’ have seen a range of questions being raised and culturally debated concerning the social risk/value of Islam in particular and religion in general and its role within the state. These debates have often become polarized, with anti-religious definitive positions attracting considerable attention, m…
Training, workload and stress among HIV counsellors
A Study of Youth Workers as Health Promoters on Sex-Related Issues and HIV/Aids in a British City
This study investigates the capacity of youth workers in a British city to undertake health promotion work on sex-related issues and HIV/AIDS. Forty five youth workers completed a semi-structured questionnaire which examined their current work on sex-related issues and HIV/AIDS. Over half had been asked about sex-related issues by young people in the previous month, most frequently about HIV/AIDS. Over half had run formal sessions on these issues…
Clinical psychologists' attitudes to lesbians
This study begins the process of examining clinical psychologists' competence in dealing with lesbian clients by assessing their attitudes to lesbians and lesbianism. Attitudinal questionnaires were sent to 200 chartered clinical psychologists and 69 (34.5%) were returned. Respondents displayed generally positive attitudes, with only two out of 12 attitudinal items failing to attract attitudinally positive responses from more than three‐quarters …
Experiences of Aids-related bereavement among gay men: Implications for care
Relatively little high-quality, qualitative research has been conducted on experiences of AIDS-related bereavement among gay men. Sixteen gay men from London and Surrey who had lost at least one close gay friend or partner to AIDS in the past 5 years were interviewed about their experiences. Data were analysed using a grounded theory approach. Although there were areas of overlap, participants' AIDS-related bereavement emerged as qualitatively di…
A review of research on the nature and quality of HIV testing services: A proposal for process-based studies
VII. Representing Gay Men with HIV/Aids
Using the Counselling Interview To Collect Research Data on Sensitive Topics
In interview-based research on sensitive health-related topics, the interview may restimulate painful memories among respondents who may become distressed. It is ethically questionable for researchers to address sensitive issues without being equipped to deal with resultant distress. An effective way of addressing this problem is for interviewers to foster counselling attributes and use counselling skills within research interviews. This fulfils …
Troubled Men and Threatening Women: The Construction of `Crisis' in Male Mental Health
In recent years, the development of an apparent `crisis' in male well-being (and, more specifically, in male mental health) has become a focus of media and academic interest. This crisis has been linked to disruptions in the traditional system of gender relations, with men being problematically positioned within a changed social context, especially in relation to issues of emotion. In this study, articles on men's health in a British broadsheet n…
Spiritual beliefs and the search for meaning among older adults following partner loss
This study explores the role played by spiritual beliefs in the process of meaning-making among older adults following the death of a partner. In-depth interviews were carried out with nine participants who held Christian beliefs. Data were analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis to highlight both commonality and diversity within the association between spiritual beliefs and structures of meaning. Participants' beliefs were divers…
How counselling psychologists view their personal therapy
A survey of UK chartered counselling psychologists (N = 192) was carried out to investigate how they viewed their personal therapy. Eighty‐four respondents completed questionnaires about their reasons and motivations for therapy, as well as its outcome and process. The results indicated that the majority (88%) were in favour of personal therapy as a training requirement. Most respondents rated the outcome and process of their personal therapy as …
What does it mean to be a donor offspring? The identity experiences of adults conceived by donor insemination and the implications for counselling and therapy
In the absence of research with adult donor offspring, this study begins to bridge that gap by asking individuals about their experiences as donor offspring and considering the implications for psychotherapeutic and counselling practice. Sixteen participants (13 male, three female, age range 26-55 years) recruited through donor insemination support networks in the UK, USA, Canada and Australia, were sent semi-structured questionnaires by E-mail a…
A minority within a minority: Identity and well-being among gay men with learning disabilities
Social psychological perspectives on lesbian and gay issues in Europe: The state of the art
Decision‐making in planned lesbian parenting: An interpretative phenomenological analysis
Although lesbian parenting has attracted much research attention within psychology in the US and the UK, the processes by which lesbian couples make the various decisions associated with parenting have been largely overlooked as an explicit research focus. This article presents findings from a qualitative study with nine lesbian couples in Britain who had had children within their current relationships. Interview transcripts were subjected to int…
Lesbian and Gay Psychology: New Perspectives
II. Subverting Psychology and Prioritizing Politics: Reflections on The Social Construction of Lesbianismfrom an Irritated Youth
Analysing Qualitative Data in Psychology
The rhetoric of acculturation: When integration means assimilation
Viewing traditional acculturation literature through a social constructionist lens, the present paper identifies a number of limitations with this research. A discourse analytic approach to acculturation is offered as a means of addressing some of these issues. Drawing on examples taken from British print media debate surrounding the issue of faith schooling in the UK, an analysis is presented which illustrates the manner in which, though optimal…
Towards an understanding of British public attitudes concerning human cloning
Qualitative Methods and ‘the (Partly) Ineffable’ in Psychological Research on Religion and Spirituality
Historically, religious and spiritual issues have been marginalized within academic psychology. Even with the advent of the psychology of religion, some important research topics and questions have remained marginalized because of the domain's enthusiastic embrace of a positivist-empiricist framework. This article considers what qualitative methods can offer psychological research on religion and spirituality, focusing on the challenges of explor…
Can “sense of presence” experiences in bereavement be conceptualised as spiritual phenomena
This article explores the possibility of conceptualising the frequently occurring experience of “sensing the presence of the deceased” in bereavement as a spiritual phenomenon and examines how such a conceptualisation can be related to two recent perspectives in the field of bereavement research, “continuing bonds” and “meaning-making.” It is argued that “sense of presence” experiences are expressions of the continuing relationship with the decea…
“Arabic is the language of the Muslims–that's how it was supposed to be”: Exploring language and religious identity through reflective accounts from young British-born South Asians
This study explores how a group of young British-born South Asians understood and defined their religious and linguistic identities, focusing upon the role played by heritage languages and liturgical languages and by religious socialisation. Twelve British-born South Asians were interviewed using a semi-structured interview schedule. Interview transcripts were subjected to interpretative phenomenological analysis. Four superordinate themes are re…
‘My language, my people’: Language and ethnic identity among British‐born South Asians
This study explores how a group of second generation Asians (SGA) understood and defined language, focusing upon the role they perceived language to have played in their identity. Twelve SGA were interviewed and the data were subjected to qualitative thematic analysis. Four superordinate themes are reported, entitled ‘Mother tongue and self’, ‘A sense of ownership and affiliation’, ‘Negotiating linguistic identities in social space’ and ‘The ques…
Qualitative Research and Anomalous Experience: A Call for Interpretative Pluralism
This commentary reviews the status that the articles in this special issue accord to the data which they analyse. Consideration is given to the benefits of adopting a pluralist interpretative approach within qualitative research on anomalous experiences, that is, applying different methodological approaches and epistemological, ontological, and theoretical positions to the same data. This analytic stance is illustrated with reference to data from…
Discourses of Friendship between Heterosexual Women and Gay Men: Mythical Norms and an Absence of Desire
Gay men and heterosexual women may share some common interests in critiquing hetero-patriarchy. However feminism and gay liberationist politics do not always coincide and the role of individual subjectivities in recognising oppressive discourses of normativity remains debated. Interviews were conducted with seven friendship dyads of heterosexual women and gay men. Transcripts were subjected to discourse analysis, which suggested extensive managem…
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