Interpretative phenomenological analysis

By Jonathan A. Smith, M. Osborn. 2008

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Social Psychology

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The Anatomy of Directed Motivational Currents: Exploring Intense and Enduring Periods of L2 Motivation (2015, background): “Such emotions involve experiences of eudaimonic well-being (Waterman, 2008). Eudaimonia, as Waterman (2008) explains, is “a constellation of subjective experiences including feelings of rightness and centeredness in one’s actions, identity, strength of purpose, and competence” (p.”
How do individuals ‘switch‐off’ from work during leisure? A qualitative description of the unwinding process in high and low ruminators (2009, methodology): “This would enable the researcher to recognise both the similarities and differences between the participants’ accounts of the experience (Smith & Osborn, 2003) without becoming detached from their original, idiographic origin.”
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA): A Qualitative Methodology of Choice in Healthcare Research (2008, background): “The paper now moves to consider how the researcher employs IPA (for a more extended treatment of how to do IPA, see, e.g., Smith & Osborn, 2008).”
Ethical Mindfulness and Reflexivity (2011, background): “This concept is clearly linked to the idea of the double hermeneutic, the term used by many (e.g., Guillemin & Gillam, 2004; Siraj-Blatchford & SirajBlatchford, 2001; Smith & Eatough, 2007) to capture the researcher’s interpretation of the research participant’s interpretation of their world.”
Exploring perceived life skills development and participation in sport (2009, methodology): “The interviewing and questioning procedures of funnelling from open and broad questions to more specific questions (Smith and Osborn 2003) developed detailed understanding of Linda’s experience.”
Phenomenological Psychological Research as Science (2012, background): “Similar difffĳiculties are created when researchers like van Manen (1990) or Smith and Osborn (2008) offfer procedures for conducting research while disclaiming that they are to be used in a procedural way.”
Exploring the experience of introjected regulation for exercise across gender in adolescence (2009, methodology): “IPA is a method of analysis that can be used to investigate the process that individuals use to make sense of their world (Smith & Osborn, 2003).”
Exploring analytical trustworthiness and the process of reaching consensus in interpretative phenomenological analysis: lost in transcription (2015, background): “Its origins are detailed in Smith (1996) and although the analytical process is described in a variety of papers (e.g. Smith & Dunworth, 2003; Smith & Eatough, 2007; Smith, Jarman, & Osborn, 1999; Smith & Osborn, 2004, 2008; Willig, 2001), Smith, Flowers, and Larkin (2009) clearly state that they…”
The Accordion and the Deep Bowl of Spaghetti: Eight Researchers’ Experiences of Using IPA as a Methodology (2014, background): “In such a world, there is no objective reality or objective truth (Lyons & Coyle, 2007), and the researcher plays an integral and dynamic part in the generation and interpretation of data Fiona Holland 3 (Smith & Eatough, 2007).”
Researching “experience”: Embodiment, methodology, process (2011, methodology): “IPA potentially provides a valuable corrective to the strong tendencies within most branches of psychology to ignore the concrete, lived totality of individual experience (Tolman, 1994) - either by decomposing it into fragments (memory, belief, attitude, cognition, personality), or by reductively co”
Stressors and Coping Strategies among Early and Middle Adolescent Premier League Academy Soccer Players: Differences According to Age (2009, background): “The interviews were conducted in a manner that placed the participant as the “expert” and enabled the participants to tell their stress and coping experiences in academy soccer (Smith & Osborn, 2003).”
Reflecting on the Use of IPA with Focus Groups: Pitfalls and Potentials (2010, methodology): “IPA is supported by an explicit theoretical foundation (e.g., Eatough & Smith 2008; Smith 1996) and a detailed set of practical, procedural guidelines (e.g., Smith & Eatough 2007).”
The wellbeing of language teachers in the private sector: An ecological perspective (2020, methodology): “Although there is an interpretative cycle in IPA which involves ‘intensive engagement with what the participant is saying’ (Smith & Osborn, 2015, p. 29), I chose to combine it with a line-by-line coding process to ensure a more critical analysis, which remains even closer to the participant’s…”
Women, Anger, and Aggression (2008, neutral): “Although studies range between 1 and 30, the norm is toward the lower end (Eatough & Smith, 2008).”
Perceptions of ‘coming out’ among British Muslim gay men (2011, methodology): “The data were analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA; Smith, 1996; Smith & Osborn, 2008), which is a qualitative analytic technique that aims to capture participants’ attempts to make sense of relevant aspects of their personal and social worlds.”
Recycling and Ambivalence (2008, methodology): “The analysis followed the process of interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) as described by Smith and Osborn (2003), that is, first the interview protocols were read and reread in an attempt to discern recurring concepts and overall themes.”