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	बहु-मामला-आधारित व्याख्यात्मक घटनात्मक विश्लेषण	व्याख्यात्मक घटनात्मकता
क्षेत्र	गुणात्मक	गुणात्मक
परिवार	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
उद्भव वर्ष	1996 (IPA); multi-case design consolidated circa 2009	Philosophical roots 1927 (Heidegger); systematic research method from 1980s–1990s
प्रवर्तक	Jonathan A. Smith (IPA); multi-case extension elaborated by Smith, Flowers & Larkin	Martin Heidegger (philosophical foundation); Max van Manen (methodological application)
प्रकार	Qualitative interpretive research design	Qualitative research method
मौलिक स्रोत	Smith, J. A., Flowers, P., & Larkin, M. (2009). Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis: Theory, Method and Research. Sage. ISBN: 978-1412908344	van Manen, M. (1990). Researching Lived Experience: Human Science for an Action Sensitive Pedagogy. State University of New York Press. ISBN: 978-0791404645
उपनाम	multi-case IPA, multiple-case IPA, cross-case interpretive phenomenological analysis, IPA multiple case design	Heideggerian phenomenology, interpretive phenomenology, hermeneutic inquiry, van Manen phenomenology
संबंधित	5	6
सारांश	Multiple case-based interpretive phenomenological analysis (multi-case IPA) applies the close, idiographic reading of IPA to a set of purposively selected cases, conducting detailed within-case analysis before systematically comparing themes across cases. The approach retains IPA's commitment to understanding individual lived experience in depth while allowing the researcher to identify convergent and divergent patterns across structurally similar situations or participant groups.	Hermeneutic phenomenology is a qualitative research approach that investigates the interpreted meaning of lived experience from within the existential conditions that shape it. Rooted in Heidegger's ontology and developed as an empirical method by Max van Manen, it does not seek to bracket or suspend the researcher's understanding but instead treats that understanding as the very medium through which the meaning of experience can be disclosed. The approach is widely used in education, nursing, and social sciences to explore how people dwell in, and make sense of, their world.