I am researching on mindfulness practices and their outcomes. I am thinking about the possibility to adopt Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis while employing GT as the research method. Will this be ok? Or should I employ only GT? Could someone please answer.
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If you want to use IPA you just has selected your way of data analisys but I think is convenient review the book of Norman Denzin about Interpretative Phenomenology or any one else for clarified when you could use IP. GT is for doing a new theory about the problem or phenomenon; if you want to explain the process of how the people take the decision to adopt mindfulness practices, is appropiate but as you had mention in your question you want to describe mindfulness practices and results and for these objectives for me is sufficient content or tematic analysis not IP.
Hello: I think we need more details on what phenomenon you are wishing to understand. IPA (one philosophical stance toward phenomenology) is about the essence of experience, whereas a Grounded Theory study seeks to understand process, and develop an explanatory framework, or "theory" for the contextually bound process. When you say you wish to study mindfulness practices and their outcome, my mind goes to outcome research of course, and that would take us likely away from either IPA or GT. The latter have 2 different areas of focus, so I think the community here would benefit in understanding more of your study.
Dear Cristina,
I am keeping well in this period of COVID pandemic. Thank you.
Hope you are staying healthy.
Many thanks for sharing your insight. As you suggested, now I am planing to do a thematic analysis. That was my first choice. But I wanted to lead the research towards a higher level through a complex methods. Producing new knowledge could be done even employing some simple methods.
Be positive and stay healthy!
There are a number of different approaches too phenomenology, and the labels sometimes overlap. In this case, Denzin's Interpretive Phenomenology is quite different from Jonathon Smith's Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis. so, be sure which version you want to follow.
I also think David Kleist makes a good point about the difference between the emphasis on lived experience in phenomenology and the emphasis on process and explanation in grounded theory. For phenomenology, you would might be interested in the meaning that mindfulness has for people, while grounded theory might be better for an interest in how people encounter and pursue such practices.
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