Σύγκριση μεθόδων

	Αφηγηματική Διερεύνηση	Ανακλαστική Θεματική Ανάλυση
Πεδίο	Ποιοτική Έρευνα	Ποιοτικές Μέθοδοι
Οικογένεια	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Έτος προέλευσης	2000	2006 (seminal paper); explicitly named 'reflexive' from ~2019
Δημιουργός	D. Jean Clandinin and F. Michael Connelly	Virginia Braun & Victoria Clarke
Τύπος	Method	Qualitative research method
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	Clandinin, D. J., & Connelly, F. M. (2000). Narrative inquiry: Experience and story in qualitative research. Jossey-Bass.	Braun, V., & Clarke, V. (2006). Using thematic analysis in psychology. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 3(2), 77–101.
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	Narrative Analysis, Narrative Research, Life Story Method	RTA, reflexive TA, Braun and Clarke thematic analysis, qualitative thematic analysis
Συναφείς	3	6
Σύνοψη	Narrative inquiry is a qualitative research methodology that treats stories and life narratives as primary data, analyzing how individuals construct meaning and identity through storytelling. Developed by D. Jean Clandinin and F. Michael Connelly (2000), narrative inquiry examines the narratives people tell about their lives, experiences, and transitions, understanding that people make sense of experience through narrative.	Reflexive Thematic Analysis (RTA) is a widely used qualitative method for identifying, analysing, and interpreting patterns of shared meaning — called themes — across a dataset. Developed by Virginia Braun and Victoria Clarke, it is theoretically flexible, works across epistemological positions, and foregrounds the researcher's active, interpretive role rather than treating themes as features that simply emerge from data. It differs from older 'codebook' approaches by treating the analyst's subjectivity as a resource rather than a source of bias to be suppressed.