Doing Q methodology: theory, method and interpretation

By Simon Watts, Paul Stenner. 2005

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Subfields: Management Science and Operations Research

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Stakeholders' perceptions of marine fish farming in Catalonia (Spain): A Q-methodology approach (2014, background): “In other words, for each factor an idealized sort was constructed which is a weighted average of all the individual sorts that loaded on this factor (Watts and Stenner, 2005).”
Identifying target groups for environmentally sustainable transport: assessment of different segmentation approaches (2013, neutral): “This primarily explorative technique is based on personal rankings of a set of heterogeneous items (=Q sort), see [54] for a detailed description of the method.”
Q Methodology in Audience Research: Bridging the Qualitative/Quantitative 'Divide'? (2011, background): “…and administrative ethics (de Graff & van Exel 2008-9); tourism (Stergiou 2011); management information systems [MIS] (Thomas & Watson 2002); social work (Ellingsen, Størksen, & Stephens 2009); and psychology (Stenner & Stainton Rogers 2004; Stenner, Watts, & Worrell 2008; Watts & Stenner 2005).”
Self‐Selection: A Key to a Better Understanding of Location Choices, Travel Behaviour and Transport Externalities? (2009, background): “See Watts and Stenner ( 2005 ) for an overview of Q‐methodology, and see Walker and Li ( 2007 ) or Prevedouros ( 1992 ) for examples of applying related methodologies (identifying clusters of people with similar attitudes and developing cluster‐specific models).”
PRESERVICE AND EARLY CAREER TEACHERS' ATTITUDES TOWARD INCLUSION, INSTRUCTIONAL ACCOMMODATIONS, AND FAIRNESS: THREE PROFILES (2010, background): “It is particularly useful for accessing the associations participants hold, that is, the ‘‘particular combinations or configurations of themes which are preferred by the participant group’’ (Watts & Stenner, 2005, p. 70, italics in original).”
Q methodology in social work research (2010, methodology): “Each of the respondents’ Q sorts is entered into the program and the Q sorts are analysed using a by‐person factor analysis (Watts & Stenner, 2005 ).”
Construction workers' well-being: What leads to depression, anxiety, and stress? (2018, methodology): “A varimax rotation was applied to all factors for preliminary analysis, as recommended by Watts and Stenner (2005).”
“What do you mean when you say that you are sexually satisfied?” A mixed methods study (2014, methodology): “This process allows for analysis of ‘‘groups of participants who make sense of (and who hence Q ‘sort’) a pool of items in comparable ways’’ (Watts and Stenner, 2005: 68), and thus represents a powerful way of investigating interpretations of psychological constructs.”
‘Quantifying’ qualitative data: an illustrative example of the use of Q methodology in psychosocial research (2006, methodology): “Watts and Stenner (2005) make the generally valid point about QM that it ‘makes no claim to have identified viewpoints that are consistent within individuals across time’ (original emphasis, p. 85).”