Σύγκριση μεθόδων

	Ημερολόγιο Έρευνας	Μέθοδος Ημερολογίου	Ανάλυση Αφηγήματος
Πεδίο	Μεθοδολογία Επισκοπήσεων	Μεθοδολογία Επισκοπήσεων	Ποιοτικές Μέθοδοι
Οικογένεια	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Έτος προέλευσης	1981 (methodological codification); diary use in research dates to 19th-century anthropology	1920s–1940s (systematised by Allport, 1942)	1967 (foundational); 2008 (canonical handbook)
Δημιουργός	Robert G. Burgess (systematic methodological treatment)	Gordon Allport (systematic social-science use); Nels Anderson (early fieldwork diaries)	Catherine Kohler Riessman (seminal synthesis, 2008); roots in Labov & Waletzky (1967)
Τύπος	Qualitative data collection and reflexivity tool	Qualitative / mixed-methods data-collection technique	Qualitative interpretive method
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	Burgess, R. G. (1981). Keeping a research diary. Cambridge Journal of Education, 11(1), 75–83.	Alaszewski, A. (2006). Using Diaries for Social Research. Sage. ISBN: 978-0761941415	Riessman, C.K. (2008). Narrative Methods for the Human Sciences. Sage.
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	researcher diary, field diary, research journal, reflexive diary	diary study, diary technique, self-report diary, daily diary method	narrative inquiry, life history analysis, biographical research, Anlatı Analizi (Narrative Analysis)
Συναφείς	6	5	6
Σύνοψη	A research diary is a systematic, dated log maintained by the researcher throughout a study to record methodological decisions, emergent observations, analytical hunches, and reflections on researcher positionality. Unlike a participant diary, it is authored by the researcher and functions simultaneously as a data source, an audit trail, and a reflexivity instrument.	The diary method is a data-collection technique in which participants record their thoughts, behaviours, events, or experiences in their own words at regular or event-contingent intervals over a defined study period. By capturing data close in time to the event, diaries reduce retrospective recall bias and give researchers access to the texture of everyday life as it unfolds — something one-off surveys and retrospective interviews cannot provide.	Narrative analysis is a qualitative research method, synthesised canonically by Catherine Kohler Riessman (2008), that examines how individuals storise their lived experiences and construct meaning through the telling. Drawing on life history, biographical, and narrative inquiry traditions, it treats the story itself — not just its content — as the unit of analysis, attending to temporal sequence, plot structure, and the social context in which a narrative is produced.