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	การวิเคราะห์เนื้อหาเชิงตีความ	การวิเคราะห์แก่นสาระ
สาขาวิชา	เชิงคุณภาพ	การวิจัยเชิงคุณภาพ
ตระกูล	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
ปีกำเนิด	1983 (Mayring's German original); 2000 (English publication)	2006
ผู้ริเริ่ม	Philipp Mayring (systematic qualitative variant); Klaus Krippendorff (foundational framework)	Virginia Braun and Victoria Clarke
ประเภท	Qualitative text analysis approach	Method
แหล่งต้นตำรับ	Mayring, P. (2000). Qualitative content analysis. Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 1(2), Art. 20.	Braun, V., & Clarke, V. (2006). Using thematic analysis in psychology. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 3(2), 77–101.
ชื่อเรียกอื่น	ICA, interpretive CA, qualitative content analysis, meaning-oriented content analysis	TA, Reflexive Thematic Analysis
ที่เกี่ยวข้อง	6	3
สรุป	Interpretive content analysis is a systematic qualitative approach for analyzing the latent meanings and interpretive frameworks embedded in textual, visual, or documentary data. Unlike frequency-based content analysis, it foregrounds the researcher's interpretive engagement with texts to uncover how meaning is constructed, contested, or reproduced. Philipp Mayring's qualitative content analysis and broader interpretive traditions provide the methodological backbone for this approach.	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.