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	ปรากฏการณ์วิทยาเชิงพรรณนา	การวิเคราะห์แก่นสาระ
สาขาวิชา	เชิงคุณภาพ	การวิจัยเชิงคุณภาพ
ตระกูล	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
ปีกำเนิด	1970s–1985 (systematised by Giorgi; refined 2009)	2006
ผู้ริเริ่ม	Amedeo Giorgi (adapting Edmund Husserl's transcendental phenomenology)	Virginia Braun and Victoria Clarke
ประเภท	Qualitative research method	Method
แหล่งต้นตำรับ	Giorgi, A. (2009). The Descriptive Phenomenological Method in Psychology: A Modified Husserlian Approach. Duquesne University Press. ISBN: 978-0820703992	Braun, V., & Clarke, V. (2006). Using thematic analysis in psychology. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 3(2), 77–101.
ชื่อเรียกอื่น	Giorgi method, empirical phenomenology, scientific phenomenology, Husserlian descriptive phenomenology	TA, Reflexive Thematic Analysis
ที่เกี่ยวข้อง	6	3
สรุป	Descriptive Phenomenology, systematised by Amedeo Giorgi at Duquesne University, is a rigorous qualitative method for uncovering the general psychological structure of a lived experience. Drawing directly on Husserl's transcendental phenomenology, Giorgi's four-step procedure — epoché, whole reading, meaning-unit discrimination, and transformation into disciplinary language — produces a stable, replicable description of what makes an experience essentially what it is, without theoretical interpretation or causal explanation.	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.