Participants and researchers searching for meaning: Conceptual developments for interpretative phenomenological analysis

By Jonathan A. Smith. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 2018

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ABSTRACT In this article I offer a theoretical account of interpretative phenomenological analysis’s (IPA’s) position in relation to meaning-making by participant and researcher. In doing this, I draw on a range of theoretical writing on meaning. I then apply these ideas to a series of empirical studies on pain which I have been involved in. The intention, therefore, is for the article to contribute a theoretically informed and empirically grounded extension to the literature on IPA.

Subfields: Psychiatry and Mental health, Sociology and Political Science

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