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	المقابلة المتعمقة	Thematic Analysis
المجال	نوعي	البحث النوعي
العائلة	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
سنة النشأة	Mid-20th century (formalised in qualitative social research from the 1950s onward)	2006
صاحب الطريقة	Rooted in sociological interviewing traditions; systematised by researchers including Steinar Kvale and Herbert J. Rubin	Virginia Braun and Victoria Clarke
النوع	Qualitative research method	Method
المصدر التأسيسي	Kvale, S. (1996). InterViews: An Introduction to Qualitative Research Interviewing. Sage. ISBN: 978-0803958203	Braun, V., & Clarke, V. (2006). Using thematic analysis in psychology. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 3(2), 77–101.
الأسماء البديلة	IDI, semi-structured interview, unstructured interview, qualitative interview	TA, Reflexive Thematic Analysis
ذات صلة	6	3
الملخص	The in-depth interview is a one-to-one qualitative data-collection method in which a researcher engages a participant in an extended, open-ended conversation to elicit rich, detailed accounts of experiences, perceptions, beliefs, or meanings. Unlike structured surveys, the interview guide serves as a flexible road map rather than a fixed script, allowing the researcher to probe unexpected directions as they emerge. The approach is foundational to qualitative inquiry and is used directly as a primary method or as the data-collection arm of phenomenology, grounded theory, narrative analysis, and other frameworks.	Thematic Analysis (TA) is a qualitative research methodology for identifying, analyzing, and reporting patterns (themes) in qualitative data. Developed systematically by Virginia Braun and Victoria Clarke (2006), TA is flexible and accessible, applicable across diverse theoretical frameworks and data types, making it one of the most widely used qualitative methods in psychology, health research, and social sciences.