Introduction Clark Moustakas focuses on the theoretical underpinnings of phenomenology, in references to other scholar's elucidations, including Husserl and others. Von Eckartsberg, R. (1972). The textural description, which is by now translated in the language in which the study is conducted (if different from the language in which the participants expressed themselves during the interviews), presents what is experienced by each participant to provide this thick description, it is important to ask the following question for every invariant meaning unit: what can possibly appear as the texture of the participants experience? A dance between the reduction and reflexivity: explicating the phenomenological psychological attitude. The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. It shall be noted that usually applying phenomenology within qualitative methods is seen as working with a version of factual variation that, in comparison to imaginative variation, works with qualitative data (as described in Hffding and Martiny, 2016). A., and Nyland, B. It is essential to the phenomenological attitude to pay full attention to both the spoken and written forms of the data. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. Used by Google DoubleClick and stores information about how the user uses the website and any other advertisement before visiting the website. WebIn distinguishing my own phenomenological design and methodology from that of other qualitative models that guide human science research, of the various qualitative inquiries I will briefly outline five that stand out for me: Ethnography, Grounded Research Theory, Hermeneutics, Duquesne Universitys Phenomenology, and Heuristics. you can save clips, playlists and searches, Navigating away from this page will delete your results. It is an attempt to put aside any prejudgements regarding the phenomenon being investigated (Salsberry, 1989; Moustakas, 1994; LeVasseur, 2003; also see a critical discussion in Zahavi, 2019a, 2020, 2021, and in Zahavi and Martiny, 2019). Res. Langdridge, D. (2007). The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to examine the lived Received: 28 September 2021; Accepted: 10 March 2022; Published: 25 April 2022. Psychol. Moustakas (1994) called this stage of data treatment horizontalisation, as this is where the descriptions of each individual turn to a horizon. An ideator and edgewalker, she has been professionally engaged in management, marketing, program development, workplace learning, leadership development, and higher education in the profit and nonprofit arenas for the past 18 years. Qual. Available at: [Accessed 2 Mar 2023]. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. The Phenomenological Movement: A Historical Introduction. Moustakas discusses at length Husserls philosophical underpinnings of TPh. WebA phenomenological study facilitates a methodology that probes the human experience, sheds light on the complexity of individual perceptions and offers ways of gaining insight and understanding into peoples experiences. Topoi 38, 251260. Interview responses were analyzed using Moussakas' Transcendental phenomenological reduction. 14, 726735. 15, 539564. Not only me, who realised that, but my family also said that: Z. has changed. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. (2005). Saul is identified first as the one in front of whom Stephens murderers laid their robes to be guarded (Acts 7:58; 22:20). Phenomenological research methods. Hermeneutic phenomenology and phenomenology: a comparison of historical and methodological considerations. You understand and agree to our. Yet Pharaoh then refused to change his mind (vs. 16- 20). I outline key principles of theory and, McCarthy discusses a constructivist research ideology using two phenomenology method variations: eidetic phenomenology and hermeneutic phenomenology. Psychol. 9, 335354. This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. In order to capture and explicate the essence and the structures constituting the experience encountered by the participants nine steps can be followed: (a) transcribing participants interviews, (b) developing a sense of the whole, (c) developing meaning units for each participants experience (horizontalisation), (d) clustering relevant units of meanings, (e) translating the meaning units, (f) developing textural (i.e., narrative) descriptions for each individual, (g) searching for essential structures that could express the entire textural description, (h) evaluating the textural description, and (i) synthesising the structure from all participants accounts. Theor. Sauls three days of darkness were spent setting aside all suppositions and reframing his noetic perspective and its noematic meaning. Experimental Phenomenology: Multistabilities. As a result, Moustakas collapses the transcendental into the empirical: he wants to say that the researcher remains present as the person that he or she is, and that he or she has or adds a transcendental consciousness to their personal presence by setting aside biases. Creswell, J. W. (2007). Sch. As the drama unfolds in chapters 6 14, Pharaoh demonstrates the same prideful stubbornness. It also allows the participants to evaluate the researchers reflection. This feature is academically important in terms of conducting a rigorous qualitative study that provides trustworthy knowledge (Crotty, 1998; Denzin and Lincoln, 2003; Creswell, 2007, 2009; Bryman, 2008). Share