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	Analisi qualitativa del contenuto longitudinale	Analisi Narrativa	Analisi Tematica
Campo	Qualitativo	Qualitativo	Ricerca qualitativa
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	2000s–2010s	1967 (foundational); 2008 (canonical handbook)	2006
Ideatore	Philipp Mayring (foundational QCA); longitudinal extension developed across qualitative health and social research traditions	Catherine Kohler Riessman (seminal synthesis, 2008); roots in Labov & Waletzky (1967)	Virginia Braun and Victoria Clarke
Tipo	Qualitative analytical method	Qualitative interpretive method	Method
Fonte seminale	Mayring, P. (2000). Qualitative content analysis. Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 1(2), Art. 20.	Riessman, C.K. (2008). Narrative Methods for the Human Sciences. Sage.	Braun, V., & Clarke, V. (2006). Using thematic analysis in psychology. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 3(2), 77–101.
Alias	LQCA, longitudinal QCA, repeated qualitative content analysis, panel qualitative content analysis	narrative inquiry, life history analysis, biographical research, Anlatı Analizi (Narrative Analysis)	TA, Reflexive Thematic Analysis
Correlati	3	6	3
Sintesi	Longitudinal qualitative content analysis (LQCA) applies systematic content analysis to text data gathered from the same participants, settings, or documents at two or more points in time. The method preserves the interpretive rigour of qualitative content analysis while adding an explicit temporal dimension, enabling researchers to track how meanings, experiences, categories, or discourse shift, deepen, or stabilise across time rather than producing a single-point-in-time description.	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.	Thematic Analysis (TA) is a qualitative research methodology for identifying, analyzing, and reporting patterns (themes) in qualitative data. Developed systematically by Virginia Braun and Victoria Clarke (2006), TA is flexible and accessible, applicable across diverse theoretical frameworks and data types, making it one of the most widely used qualitative methods in psychology, health research, and social sciences.