The present study aims to demonstrate the importance of a method combination in qualitative research to explore meaning-making pro-cesses. By analyzing women’s ambivalence toward cosmetics, we illustrate how a combination of qualitative methods can make sense when we want to capture the emergence of meaning-making in the most direct possible way. We combined the double-blank method, the qualitative interview and the go-along method. We also present a different form of interview, the interview ‘by doing’, which involves asking participants to do an activity, during or after which the inter-viewer asks questions referring to their direct thoughts and emotions they had while doing what they did. We demonstrate how this com-bination of qualitative methods helped us to get closer to the emerg-ing meaning-making. We also explain why such a combination should be encouraged in qualitative research, what the possible limits are and present some ideas of other methodical combinations for further research in qualitative psychology.
Spezzacatena, M., Marsico, G., (2023). Emerging Meaning-Making:Combining Qualitative Methods in a Study of Women’s Ambivalence towards Makeup, Journal of Costructivist Psychology. https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10720537.2023.2178042
Giuseppina Marsico
Writing – Original Draft Preparation
2023-01-01
Abstract
The present study aims to demonstrate the importance of a method combination in qualitative research to explore meaning-making pro-cesses. By analyzing women’s ambivalence toward cosmetics, we illustrate how a combination of qualitative methods can make sense when we want to capture the emergence of meaning-making in the most direct possible way. We combined the double-blank method, the qualitative interview and the go-along method. We also present a different form of interview, the interview ‘by doing’, which involves asking participants to do an activity, during or after which the inter-viewer asks questions referring to their direct thoughts and emotions they had while doing what they did. We demonstrate how this com-bination of qualitative methods helped us to get closer to the emerg-ing meaning-making. We also explain why such a combination should be encouraged in qualitative research, what the possible limits are and present some ideas of other methodical combinations for further research in qualitative psychology.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
