השוואת שיטות

	מחקר ביוגרפי אורך – מעקב אחר חיים לאורך זמן	מחקר תולדות חיים
תחום	איכותני	איכותני
משפחה	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
שנת המקור	1990s–2000s (consolidated as a named approach ca. 2000)	Early 20th century (Thomas & Znaniecki 1918–1920); systematised as interview method in the 1990s
הוגה השיטה	Tom Wengraf, Prue Chamberlayne, Joanna Bornat (BNIM tradition); also Robert Miller and Rita Charon in parallel strands	William I. Thomas and Florian Znaniecki (sociological tradition); Robert Atkinson (interview method)
סוג	Qualitative longitudinal research design	Qualitative research method
מקור מכונן	Wengraf, T. (2001). Qualitative Research Interviewing: Biographic Narrative and Semi-Structured Methods. Sage. ISBN: 978-0761953517	Atkinson, R. (1998). The Life Story Interview. Sage. ISBN: 978-0761904496
כינויים	LBR, longitudinal narrative research, biographical-longitudinal method, repeated biographical interviewing	life history method, life-history interview, biographical research, personal narrative research
קשורות	5	6
תקציר	Longitudinal Biographical Research (LBR) is a qualitative approach that combines in-depth biographical or narrative interviewing with a repeated, time-extended data-collection design. Participants are interviewed at multiple time points — sometimes years apart — so that researchers can trace how individuals construct, revise, and re-narrate their life stories as circumstances change. The method captures both the content of life histories and the dynamic process through which meaning is made and remade over time.	Life history research is a qualitative method that captures the full arc of an individual's life — or a significant portion of it — through extended biographical interviewing and analysis of personal documents. Rooted in early Chicago School sociology, the method treats each life story as a window into broader social, cultural, and historical forces. The researcher and participant co-construct a narrative account that illuminates how personal experience is shaped by, and in turn shapes, wider social structures and processes.