Phenomenology Methodology
This is the primary method of data collection within phenomenological research
What is the phenomenological interview?
These are the four criteria related to establishing trustworthiness in qualitative researcher
What are credibility, dependability, transferability, and confirmability?
This term refers to the use of multiple sources of data in a research study to improve a more thorough understanding.
What is triangulation?
This philosopher is considered the founder of phenomenology and emphasized the importance of subjective experience.
Who is ‘Edmund Husserl’?
This is the main philosophical idea surrounding the phenomenological research study design.
What is ‘existentialism’?
This term refers to the ability to identify one’s own biases and assumptions and separate themselves from them for the sake of understanding the phenomenon in question.
What is bracketing?
This term refers to the generalizability of the qualitative research findings to other groups or contexts
This type of peer interaction helps explore aspects of the inquiry that may “only implicit within the inquirer’s mind”
What is peer debriefing?
These individuals are the authors of the text: Qualitative Research: A Guide to Design and Implementation.
Who are ‘Sharan B Merriam and Elizabeth J. Tisdell’
This philosophical idea behind phenomenological research is based on the individual's consciousness that serves as the object of the scientific study.
What is ‘Transcendental Phenomenology’?
This term refers to the approach that each piece of data collected during a study has equal weight of importance at the beginning of data analysis
What is horizontalization?
This duo initially proposed the four terms of credibility to establish trustworthiness in qualitative research
Who are Lincoln and Guba?
Credibility is the qualitative equivalent to this quantitative research consideration.
What is internal validity?
This philosopher expanded phenomenology and coined the hermeneutical approach
This type of phenomenological study emphasizes creating meaning of experiences from the audience's perspective.
What is ‘Hermeneutic Phenomenology’?
Iterative cycles, reflexivity, and considering how the parts contribute to the whole are components of the research process for this type of phenomenological inquiry.
What is hermeneutic phenomenology?
An audit trail throughout the entirety of a research study can establish this technique of qualitative research criteria
What is confirmability?
This term refers to the duration which is required to appropriately immerse oneself in a particular culture, phenomenon, or experience to build trust and understanding.
What is prolonged engagement?
These individuals published a phenomenological study inquiring about the intuition of novice nurses.
Who are ‘Ruth-Sahd and Tisdell’?
**DAILY DOUBLE**: This represents the structure of the experience and the true nature of the phenomenon.
What is the ‘essence’?
A method during phenomenological inquiry in which the data is viewed from various perspectives and angles, just as one would look at a statue at different viewpoints
What is imaginative variation?
Thick description can be utilized to encourage which of the four qualitative research criteria?
What is transferrability?
One of the downsides of this technique is that there requires a fixed truth of reality that may be experienced by the various study participants
What are member checks?
This individual is credited with applying phenomenology as a methodological approach?
Who is ‘Claude Moustakas’?
The phenomenological research study design attempts to capture this type of experience.