Compară metode

	Saturația datelor în cercetarea calitativă	Analiza Tematică
Domeniu	Cercetare calitativă	Cercetare calitativă
Familie	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anul apariției	1967	2006
Autorul original	Barney Glaser and Anselm Strauss	Virginia Braun and Victoria Clarke
Tip	Concept	Method
Sursa seminală	Glaser, B. G., & Strauss, A. L. (1967). The Discovery of Grounded Theory: Strategies for Qualitative Research. Aldine. ISBN: 978-0202302560	Braun, V., & Clarke, V. (2006). Using thematic analysis in psychology. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 3(2), 77–101.
Denumiri alternative	saturation, theoretical saturation, thematic saturation, sampling to saturation	TA, Reflexive Thematic Analysis
Înrudite	4	3
Rezumat	Data saturation is a foundational principle in qualitative research describing the point at which data collection yields no new themes, codes, or insights—additional data becomes redundant. Introduced by Glaser and Strauss (1967) in their work on grounded theory, saturation guides decisions about sample size and when to stop recruiting participants. Saturation is not a fixed number but a dynamic endpoint determined by examining whether new data are adding substantively new information. The concept is central to claims of rigor and theoretical adequacy in qualitative research, signaling that the researcher has gathered sufficient data to understand the phenomenon in depth.	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.