Thematic Collation

An Illustrative Analysis of the Experience of Regret

Bibliographic Data

ID12733052
AuthorsGilbert Garza (University of Dallas, corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume8
Issue1
Pages40-65
Publication date2011-03-16
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueQualitative Research in Psychology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1478-0887 • E-ISSN: 1478-0895
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14780880903490839
OpenAlexW2048743390
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited9

Following the theoretical and methodological trail blazed by the “Duquesne School” (see Garza 2007 Garza, G. 2007. Varieties of phenomenological research at the University of Dallas: an emerging typology. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 4: 313–42. [Taylor & Francis Online] , [Google Scholar]; Polkinghorne 1989 Polkinghorne, DE. 1989. “Phenomenological research methods”. In Existential-phenomenological perspectives in psychology: exploring the breadth of human experience, Edited by: Valle, RS and Halling, S. New York: Plenum Press. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar]; von Eckartsberg 1998b von Eckartsberg, R. 1998b. “Existential-phenomenological research”. In Phenomenological inquiry in psychology: existential and transpersonal dimensions, Edited by: Valle, R. New York: Plenum Press. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar]), this article presents a procedure for phenomenological data analysis. After describing its approach, this article lays out the procedure for thematic collation analysis using the work of Giorgi (1970 Giorgi, A. 1970. Psychology as a human science: a phenomenologically based approach, New York: Harper & Row. [Google Scholar], 1975 Giorgi, A. 1975. “Convergence and divergence of qualitative methods in psychology”. In Duquesne studies in phenomenological psychology: vol. II, Edited by: Giorgi, A, Fischer, C and Murray, E. Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press. [Google Scholar], 1985a Giorgi, A. 1985a. “Sketch of a phenomenological method”. In Phenomenology and psychological research, Edited by: Giorgi, A. Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press. [Google Scholar], 1985b Giorgi, A. 1985b. “The phenomenological psychology of learning and the verbal learning tradition”. In Phenomenology and psychological research, Edited by: Giorgi, A. Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press. [Google Scholar]; Giorgi & Giorgi 2003 Giorgi, A and Giorgi, B. 2003. “The descriptive phenomenological psychological method”. In Qualitative research in psychology: expanding perspectives in methodology and design, Edited by: Camic, PM, Rhodes, JE and Yardley, L. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar]) and this author's thematic moment analysis (Garza 2004 Garza, G. 2004. Thematic moment analysis: a didactic application of a procedure for phenomenological analysis of narrative data. Humanistic Psychologist, 32: 120–68. [Taylor & Francis Online] , [Google Scholar]) as a point of reference. Idiographic results of a single datum describing an experience of regret are presented along with the steps through which this idiographic thematic narrative was developed. Procedures for arriving at comparative analysis of more than one piece of data are presented and distinguished from claims of generality sought by works drawing on larger data pools. Finally, this work discusses the usefulness of this procedure for lengthy and complex data and situates this procedure within the phenomenological tradition of psychological research

Epistemology · Existentialism · Interpretative phenomenological analysis · Phenomenological method · Phenomenology (philosophy · Psychoanalysis · Qualitative research · Social science · Sociology · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Representations and Identity

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