Marie Stadel , Anna M. Langener , Katie Hoemann , Laura F. Bringmann
{"title":"Assessing daily life activities with experience sampling methodology (ESM): Scoring predefined categories or qualitative analysis of open-ended responses?","authors":"Marie Stadel , Anna M. Langener , Katie Hoemann , Laura F. Bringmann","doi":"10.1016/j.metip.2025.100177","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.metip.2025.100177","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>One domain frequently assessed in Experience Sampling Methodology (ESM) studies is that of daily activities. This is often done with predefined (and unvalidated) categorical items, but can also be done using open-ended items. ESM researchers, however, lack tools and guidance in analyzing the obtained open-ended data. In the first part of this paper, we use data from a 28-day ESM study in which students reported their activities both categorically and open-endedly to compare these two assessment approaches. We additionally present participant preferences and reflections captured in exit interviews. In the second part, we illustrate the qualitative analysis process for open-ended ESM responses. All code and tools we used (including a newly developed Shiny App facilitating the coding of responses to open-ended ESM items) are shared for use in future research. Our results highlight the advantages and limitations of both assessment approaches: while categorical items offer simplicity, they often lack specificity. Conversely, open-ended responses provide richer, more personalized data, making them particularly valuable in idiographic clinical applications and exploratory research. A combination of both formats may enable the most effective assessment. We hope the tools we provide encourage the further use and exploration of open-ended ESM assessments.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":93338,"journal":{"name":"Methods in Psychology (Online)","volume":"12 ","pages":"Article 100177"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143445725","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The role of sampling in an explanatory sequential mixed methods study: General applications of the transformative paradigm","authors":"Tashane K. Haynes-Brown","doi":"10.1016/j.metip.2025.100176","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.metip.2025.100176","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The purpose of this article is to illustrate how considerations from the transformative paradigm were integrated broadly in the sampling decisions in an explanatory sequential mixed methods study. The study sought to explore the complex relationship between teachers’ beliefs and classroom practices. Data were collected from 248 teachers using a questionnaire, semi-structured interviews, lesson observations, an observation checklist, video recordings and video elicitation interviews. By employing transformative considerations generally in making the sampling decisions a more rigorous and transparent sampling design emerged that yielded more comprehensive inferences. This article contributes to mixed methods research by providing a practical example and analytical insights into how the principles of the transformative paradigm can be applied broadly in the sampling design.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":93338,"journal":{"name":"Methods in Psychology (Online)","volume":"12 ","pages":"Article 100176"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143174669","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Making Positive Vibrations” in a mixed methods study of covert bullying: A transformative methodological framework for social justice","authors":"Ingrid E. Hunt-Anderson","doi":"10.1016/j.metip.2025.100175","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.metip.2025.100175","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Grounded in critical theory, the exemplar qualitative-oriented exploratory mixed methods study of covert bullying illustrates a methodological framework that adheres to the assumptions of the transformative agenda for prioritizing advocacy and social justice. This includes organizing a multiethnic mix of adolescents from varied school communities and backgrounds and multiple, creative methods to capture rich, “culturally complex” data. Six principles of a transformative framework are charted to help establish cultural legitimacy of the integrative findings and accurate meta-inferences. These principles ultimately provide a robust approach for developing a more authentic picture of covert bullying in Jamaican schools and effective transformative interventions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":93338,"journal":{"name":"Methods in Psychology (Online)","volume":"12 ","pages":"Article 100175"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143174670","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Digging and building: How transformative mixed-methods research contributes to explaining and responding to educational exclusion and school dropout","authors":"Tabata Contreras-Villalobos , Enrique Baleriola Escudero , Verónica López Leiva","doi":"10.1016/j.metip.2024.100170","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.metip.2024.100170","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Transformative mixed-methods research (T-MMR) provides an integrated understanding of social issues while simultaneously working toward their transformation. This paper illustrates how this approach deals with urgent problems affecting vulnerable groups that experience socioeducational inequality, focusing on educational exclusion and school dropout in youth and adult education in Chile. Using the metaphor of digging and building, this study explores how T-MMR facilitates a comprehensive approach by integrating qualitative and quantitative methods to understand and respond to these issues from an educational psychology perspective. Findings show that through digging (QUAN-QUAL), educational exclusion is rooted in systemic inequalities, with marginalized students facing persistent barriers that the education system fails to adequately address. However, the strength of T-MMR lies in not only revealing these challenges but also co-creating practical solutions. That is what we call building. To deepen our understanding of school dropout, this phase consisted of an integration of quantitative and qualitative data and collaborative work with students, teachers, and policymakers, creating a particular and precise response. Finally, this research highlights the value of T-MMR for engaging communities in both understanding (digging) and reshaping (building) educational practices, offering a transformative pathway toward a more just and responsive education system.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":93338,"journal":{"name":"Methods in Psychology (Online)","volume":"11 ","pages":"Article 100170"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143173779","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nancy Gerber , Karin Hannes , Marco Gemignani , Jacelyn Biondo , Richard Siegesmund , Lucia Carriera , Elisabetta Biffi , Madeline Centracchio , Mandy Archibald , Gioia Chilton , Janet L. Kuhnke , Angela Dawson , Jorge Lucero , Nicky Haire , Sara Scott Shields
{"title":"Sustaining life on earth: An arts-based research exploration of collective lived experiences of COVID-19","authors":"Nancy Gerber , Karin Hannes , Marco Gemignani , Jacelyn Biondo , Richard Siegesmund , Lucia Carriera , Elisabetta Biffi , Madeline Centracchio , Mandy Archibald , Gioia Chilton , Janet L. Kuhnke , Angela Dawson , Jorge Lucero , Nicky Haire , Sara Scott Shields","doi":"10.1016/j.metip.2024.100162","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.metip.2024.100162","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article presents the philosophy, innovative methods, and final aesthetic synthesis of a collaborative arts-based research project about the lived experience of COVID-19. The project was initiated in 2020 and completed in 2022. Nineteen international arts-based research scholars participated as co-researchers, submitting their arts-based and narrative responses to the project. The six-member core research team guiding the project collected and organized the submissions while simultaneously entering into immersive, iterative, dynamic, arts-based data generation, dialogic analytic and syntheses processes with co-researchers, and each other. Materials-discursive analytic processes, arts-based responses, sensorial coding, intersubjective dialogues, and arts-based assemblages conducted iteratively throughout the project. The performative result captured the sensory, embodied, and emotional experiences of the evolving stages of the pandemic as identified by and resonant with the co-researchers and multiple audiences. These stages were identified during the project by the co-researchers as: initial anxiety and panic; reflection and creativity; and resilience. The final synthesis of the project is an arts-based and performative piece using video and interactive gallery venues representative of these stages.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":93338,"journal":{"name":"Methods in Psychology (Online)","volume":"11 ","pages":"Article 100162"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142578569","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Creating deeper attachments: Reflections on developing arts-based pedagogy and practice within psychology","authors":"Kitrina Douglas , David Carless","doi":"10.1016/j.metip.2024.100169","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.metip.2024.100169","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this article we explore the potential of arts-based methodologies to contribute to pedagogy and practice in psychology. Drawing on insights developed by Elliot Eisner (2008) related to what education can learn from the arts, we first explore how Eisner's ideas, along with our experiences, might infuse research supervision. Through ‘applied practice’ we then identify some of the potential benefits and challenges of including arts-based methods during supervision. Reflections show how important it is to create a safe space, deconstruct hierarchies, and provide examples of arts-based research, along with an opportunity to experiment and share. Together, these seem to support the development of trusting mature relationships that can lead to personal growth and transformation. While we have become advocates for the potential of arts-based research in psychology our reflections also identify a number of challenges and conditions to realising such benefits.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":93338,"journal":{"name":"Methods in Psychology (Online)","volume":"11 ","pages":"Article 100169"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142656284","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jessica T. DeCuir-Gunby , Whitney N. McCoy , Saba L. Modaressi
{"title":"Critical Race Mixed Methodology (CRMM) as a transformative method: The benefits and challenges","authors":"Jessica T. DeCuir-Gunby , Whitney N. McCoy , Saba L. Modaressi","doi":"10.1016/j.metip.2024.100168","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.metip.2024.100168","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Critical Race Mixed Methodology (CRMM) is a transformative mixed methods approach that combines CRT within a mixed methods design. In this article, we reflect upon our experience using and publishing a CRMM explanatory mixed methods study in a higher education journal's special issue focused on mixed methods research. We discuss the benefits of using CRMM as a transformative method. Then, we share the challenges of using CRMM. We also provide recommendations for engaging in CRMM research within psychology.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":93338,"journal":{"name":"Methods in Psychology (Online)","volume":"11 ","pages":"Article 100168"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142527536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Catherine Huard , Prudence Caldairou-Bessette , Pierre Plante
{"title":"Between arts-based methods and hermeneutics: Navigating the ethics of participation in research with vulnerable children","authors":"Catherine Huard , Prudence Caldairou-Bessette , Pierre Plante","doi":"10.1016/j.metip.2024.100167","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.metip.2024.100167","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Children are underrepresented in research, mainly because of the ethical issues that their participation raises. This is even more true when it comes to marginalized migrant children. For the sake of justice, researchers must think about methods for including children and their families and reflect on the ethics of knowledge building in these contexts. This article returns to the hermeneutics of Hans Georg Gadamer as an interpretation practice which values understanding rather than explanation. It also focuses on the concept of play which can be truth revealing and which is understood as the very being of artistic practices. This allows us to first emphasize the compatibility of hermeneutics and art-based approaches, and their ethical value when it comes to bringing clinical and research issues together. This article highlights that methods based on art and play itself are ethical in the way that they can both provide well-being and reveal a truth that is as useful to the participant as it is to the researcher. This article also addresses how the researcher, in the process of understanding, is “at play” in the research situation which places him in an active role. The play allows a participatory truth to emerge, a truth resulting from a dialogue. This leads us to recognize the ethical value of participation in research with children.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":93338,"journal":{"name":"Methods in Psychology (Online)","volume":"11 ","pages":"Article 100167"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142426916","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A mixed methods analysis of open ended interviews with mothers of young children: Combining psychoanalytic inquiry with reflective functioning","authors":"Alexa Young","doi":"10.1016/j.metip.2024.100165","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.metip.2024.100165","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":93338,"journal":{"name":"Methods in Psychology (Online)","volume":"11 ","pages":"Article 100165"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142426915","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}