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Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis

Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) is a qualitative research methodology that explores how people make sense of significant personal experiences. Developed by Jonathan Smith (1999) and grounded in phenomenology and hermeneutics, IPA examines individual experience in detail before identifying shared patterns; it emphasizes the idiographic (particular) and operates on the principle of double hermeneutics: the researcher interprets participants' interpretations of their lived experience.

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Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA)
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / qualitative-research
  • Smith, J. A. (1999). Towards a relational self: Social engagement during pregnancy and first-time motherhood. British Journal of Social Psychology, 38(4), 409–426. · DOI 10.1348/014466699164248
  • Smith, J. A., Flowers, P., & Larkin, M. (2009). Interpretative phenomenological analysis: Theory, method and research. Sage Publications. · URL
  • Smith, J. A. (Ed.). (2015). Qualitative psychology: A practical guide to research methods (3rd ed.). Sage Publications. · URL
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Same method familyHermeneutic Analysismachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyPhenomenological Researchmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyThematic Analysismachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.

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