เปรียบเทียบวิธี

	การสืบสวนเชิงพรรณนา	การวิเคราะห์ใจความแบบสะท้อนคิด
สาขาวิชา	การวิจัยเชิงคุณภาพ	เชิงคุณภาพ
ตระกูล	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
ปีกำเนิด	2000	2006 (seminal paper); explicitly named 'reflexive' from ~2019
ผู้ริเริ่ม	D. Jean Clandinin and F. Michael Connelly	Virginia Braun & Victoria Clarke
ประเภท	Method	Qualitative research method
แหล่งต้นตำรับ	Clandinin, D. J., & Connelly, F. M. (2000). Narrative inquiry: Experience and story in qualitative research. Jossey-Bass.	Braun, V., & Clarke, V. (2006). Using thematic analysis in psychology. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 3(2), 77–101.
ชื่อเรียกอื่น	Narrative Analysis, Narrative Research, Life Story Method	RTA, reflexive TA, Braun and Clarke thematic analysis, qualitative thematic analysis
ที่เกี่ยวข้อง	3	6
สรุป	Narrative inquiry is a qualitative research methodology that treats stories and life narratives as primary data, analyzing how individuals construct meaning and identity through storytelling. Developed by D. Jean Clandinin and F. Michael Connelly (2000), narrative inquiry examines the narratives people tell about their lives, experiences, and transitions, understanding that people make sense of experience through narrative.	Reflexive Thematic Analysis (RTA) is a widely used qualitative method for identifying, analysing, and interpreting patterns of shared meaning — called themes — across a dataset. Developed by Virginia Braun and Victoria Clarke, it is theoretically flexible, works across epistemological positions, and foregrounds the researcher's active, interpretive role rather than treating themes as features that simply emerge from data. It differs from older 'codebook' approaches by treating the analyst's subjectivity as a resource rather than a source of bias to be suppressed.