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	बहु-मामला-आधारित घटना विज्ञान	अनुदैर्ध्य घटना विज्ञान
क्षेत्र	गुणात्मक	गुणात्मक
परिवार	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
उद्भव वर्ष	1990s–2000s	2000s (formalised as a distinct design)
प्रवर्तक	Synthesis drawing on Robert Stake (multiple case study) and Edmund Husserl / Clark Moustakas (phenomenology)	Draws on Husserl and Heidegger's phenomenological tradition; longitudinal application developed in qualitative research (Saldana, Thomson et al., early 2000s)
प्रकार	Qualitative research design	Qualitative longitudinal research design
मौलिक स्रोत	Stake, R. E. (2006). Multiple Case Study Analysis. Guilford Press. ISBN: 978-1593852481	Saldana, J. (2003). Longitudinal Qualitative Research: Analyzing Change through Time. AltaMira Press. ISBN: 978-0759103917
उपनाम	multi-case phenomenology, cross-case phenomenological study, phenomenological multiple case study, comparative phenomenological case inquiry	longitudinal phenomenological inquiry, temporal phenomenology, repeated-interview phenomenology, longitudinal lived-experience research
संबंधित	5	6
सारांश	Multiple case-based phenomenology combines the bounded, comparative logic of multiple case study design with the lived-experience focus of phenomenological inquiry. The researcher selects two or more distinct cases — individuals, sites, or groups — who share the same target phenomenon, conducts phenomenological analysis within each case, and then synthesises findings across cases to identify both shared essential structures and case-specific variations. The result is richer and more transferable than a single-case phenomenological study while remaining grounded in the depth that phenomenology demands.	Longitudinal phenomenology applies phenomenological inquiry across two or more time points to capture how participants' lived experience of a phenomenon changes, deepens, or transforms over time. Rooted in the phenomenological tradition of Husserl and Heidegger, it adds an explicit temporal dimension — asking not only what an experience is like, but how it evolves. It is used where a single-point interview would miss the processual, shifting nature of lived meaning.