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{"title":"The theme-centred interview and the map of meanings: A phenomenological approach to the analysis of experience","authors":"Maria Armezzani ,&nbsp;Luca Zamengo","doi":"10.1016/j.metip.2024.100164","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.metip.2024.100164","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper presents a methodological proposal for phenomenological interviewing, the theme-centred interview, designed to facilitate in-depth exploration of the meanings experienced in relation to a theme. The method is rooted in the phenomenological tradition, but incorporates innovative aspects, including the systematic use of aphorisms, a specific coding system with qualitative criteria that encompasses elements of the researcher's experience, and the use of existential categories to frame results within a phenomenological context. This approach includes a graphical output, the map of meanings, which extend the analysis by providing a visual representation of the structures of meanings in relation to the theme.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":93338,"journal":{"name":"Methods in Psychology (Online)","volume":"11 ","pages":"Article 100164"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142426914","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 systematic – Review of academic stress intended to improve the educational journey of learners","authors":"Iqra","doi":"10.1016/j.metip.2024.100163","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.metip.2024.100163","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>As learners progress through their educational path, they experience various hassles and transitions, certainly encountering stress along the way. This can be due to the academic burdens placed on them, the personal growth they endure, and the adjustments required in new settings, all fundamental to their educational experiences. Preeminent academic stress is a concerning problem worldwide, affecting every facet of students’ lives. Hence, it is crucial to have a full understanding of academic stress, including its sources, symptoms, and ramifications, in order to recommend appropriate intervention strategies. Previously, many review articles have been published covering various aspects of academic stress, but this review aims to serve as an umbrella term for academic stress, enclosing every aspect under its thorough coverage. Data is collected from various journals using different virtual databases, primarily Google Scholar. The search was done using keywords relevant to every phase of academic stress such as academic stress, causes of stress among students, impacts of stress, symptoms of stress, management techniques, etc. The review comprehensively explores stress at academic levels, covering causes, symptoms, detection tools, and impacts, and proposing effective coping tactics beneficial for students to cope with stress.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":93338,"journal":{"name":"Methods in Psychology (Online)","volume":"11 ","pages":"Article 100163"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590260124000298/pdfft?md5=13d4a4a9a6c7605c62642abe68bdf192&pid=1-s2.0-S2590260124000298-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142310533","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":"Using hybrid qualitative analysis to explore lived experience of motherhood and postnatal depression: A thematic-dialogical approach","authors":"Amirah Akhtar ,&nbsp;Paul Sullivan ,&nbsp;Yunis Alam ,&nbsp;Abigail Locke","doi":"10.1016/j.metip.2024.100161","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.metip.2024.100161","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper illustrates a novel hybrid approach to analysis which offers unique insights into the experience of postnatal depression in British Pakistani-Muslim women, through the prioritising of voice. To do so, we combine thematic and dialogical analysis, using data from a study on motherhood and postnatal depression. Participants were part of the birth cohort ‘Born in Bradford's Better Start’. The rationale for developing a hybridised approach is discussed. The ensuing analyses highlight the role of internal voices and chronotope, which give a detailed insight into women's meaning making of psychological distress and motherhood during the postnatal period. We go onto discuss the strength and limitations of hybridising thematic-dialogical analysis in the context of health research.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":93338,"journal":{"name":"Methods in Psychology (Online)","volume":"11 ","pages":"Article 100161"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590260124000274/pdfft?md5=ac7aaea8cbce16aaffe909c03f81d2da&pid=1-s2.0-S2590260124000274-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142129051","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":"Using participatory art-based methods to explore experiences and practices in sexual and reproductive health","authors":"Eliza Govender ,&nbsp;Phiwe Babalo Nota ,&nbsp;Mpume Gumede ,&nbsp;Nqobile Ngubane","doi":"10.1016/j.metip.2024.100160","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.metip.2024.100160","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Arts-based research is an emergent yet developing methodology in application for health research over the last few decades. Visual arts in research and practice particularly among women in marginalized settings facilitate opportunities to address intricate issues around sexual and reproductive health (SRH), some of which extend to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) risk perceptions and acceptability and uptake of new services and health options. This paper draws on visual arts-based methods using a specific technique of journey mapping adopted in two studies and aims to demonstrate how art-based methods contribute to socio-behavioural research.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":93338,"journal":{"name":"Methods in Psychology (Online)","volume":"11 ","pages":"Article 100160"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590260124000262/pdfft?md5=b09a09fa9cdd53998cf02eaabb3d87e2&pid=1-s2.0-S2590260124000262-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142020882","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 practical applications guide to machine learning regression models in psychology with Python","authors":"Nataša Kovač ,&nbsp;Kruna Ratković ,&nbsp;Hojjatollah Farahani ,&nbsp;Peter Watson","doi":"10.1016/j.metip.2024.100156","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.metip.2024.100156","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This guide presents a detailed overview of the most used machine learning (ML) techniques for psychologists who may not be familiar with advanced statistical methods, algorithms, or programming. Recognizing the growing interest in using data-driven approaches within psychological research, this guide describes applying ML techniques to investigate complex psychological phenomena. The paper covers the spectrum of algorithms, including decision trees, random forests, gradient boosting, stochastic gradient boosting, and XGBoost, highlighting their concepts and practical applications in psychology. Aiming to bridge the gap between theoretical understanding and practical performance, this paper offers step-by-step instructions on data preprocessing, correlation exploration, feature selection, and model evaluation within the Python programming environment. Readers are offered the necessary tools to apply ML in their research through explanations, examples, and visualization.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":93338,"journal":{"name":"Methods in Psychology (Online)","volume":"11 ","pages":"Article 100156"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590260124000225/pdfft?md5=b9abb3999ed9add2567c56203a7e7790&pid=1-s2.0-S2590260124000225-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141963461","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 method to simulate multivariate outliers with known mahalanobis distances for normal and non-normal data","authors":"Oscar L. Olvera Astivia","doi":"10.1016/j.metip.2024.100157","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.metip.2024.100157","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Monte Carlo simulations and theoretical analyses have repeatedly demonstrated the impact of outliers on statistical analysis. Most simulation studies generate outliers using one of two general approaches: by multiplying an arbitrary point by a constant or through a finite mixture. The latter can be extended to multivariate settings by defining the Mahalanobis distance between the centroids of two clusters of points. Nevertheless, when researchers aim to simulate individual data points with population-level Mahalanobis distances, the number of available procedures is very limited. This article generalizes one of the few existing methods to simulate an arbitrary number of outliers in an arbitrary number of dimensions, for both multivariate normal and non-normal data. A small simulation demonstration showcases how this methodology enables new simulation designs that were either unpopular or not possible due to the lack of a data-generating algorithm. A discussion of potential implications highlights the importance of considering multivariate outliers in simulation settings.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":93338,"journal":{"name":"Methods in Psychology (Online)","volume":"11 ","pages":"Article 100157"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590260124000237/pdfft?md5=994109449d478d74e642895eea71d9ad&pid=1-s2.0-S2590260124000237-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141951010","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":"How not to talk about it: Using digital storytelling with children with anxiety","authors":"Diane Macdonald,&nbsp;Chloe Watfern,&nbsp;Katherine M Boydell","doi":"10.1016/j.metip.2024.100159","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.metip.2024.100159","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper explores the benefits and challenges of using digital storytelling (DST) in mental health research with children. By using DST to centre children's experiences, the study empathetically deepens our understanding of children's complex mental health issues. DST involves a gradual process that fosters safe self-expression and imaginative storytelling. The <span>DST</span> process can help convey difficult or stressful stories coherently and creatively to support both researchers and participants in understanding mental health issues. However, a narrow focus on neat endings and resolutions may limit authentic expression, indicating a need for more open-ended narrative structures to capture the complexities of children's mental health experiences.</p><p>This is a story about three stories. This is also a story about the discoveries and challenges of working alongside children (ages 10–13) as they used digital storytelling to share their anxiety experiences through short self-made videos. Our journey began with two questions: How would children portray their anxiety through digital storytelling? What aspects of the digital storytelling process would be the most fruitful for both participants and researchers, and why? In this paper, we weave three of the children's stories within our own narrative of using digital storytelling as a research tool to better understand children's experiences of anxiety. Rather than present the children's stories as the results of our research, we use their stories as springboards for articulating and interrogating digital storytelling as a tool for understanding anxiety. We intertwine the first-person accounts of each child with our academic prose, deliberately highlighting the different ways of knowing that our approach enables.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":93338,"journal":{"name":"Methods in Psychology (Online)","volume":"11 ","pages":"Article 100159"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590260124000250/pdfft?md5=d7384e5e25db9a38b1274025addba837&pid=1-s2.0-S2590260124000250-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141951011","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":"How do you solve a problem like COREQ? A critique of Tong et al.’s (2007) Consolidated Criteria for Reporting Qualitative Research","authors":"Virginia Braun ,&nbsp;Victoria Clarke","doi":"10.1016/j.metip.2024.100155","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.metip.2024.100155","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this paper, we argue that COREQ – the consolidated criteria for reporting qualitative research (Tong et al., 2007) – is a problem, and a problem in need of a solution. COREQ is not just a problem because – as Buus and Perron (2020) argued – there are important questions about the credibility of the development of the checklist. COREQ is a problem because some in the (qualitative) research community treat it as generic and universally applicable, and maintain that the use of COREQ by authors and evaluators will result in better – more transparent and complete – reporting. But, as we will show, COREQ is far from generic, and its use can contribute to methodologically <em>incongruent</em> reporting. We develop our argument that the use of COREQ should be confined to the reporting and evaluation of what we term ‘small q’ qualitative research, by critically discussing the definition of qualitative research in COREQ, the conflation of reflexivity and bias, and the presumed universality of saturation, certain analytic practices and outputs, and participant validation. However, even demarcating a limited frame of ‘qualitative’ for the application of COREQ doesn't eliminate all the problems. We contend that COREQ needs extensive refinement to ensure it promotes more transparent and complete reporting, <em>especially</em> when used by less experienced researchers and evaluators. In the absence of such revision, we invite journal editors to consider whether the flaws in COREQ render it untrustworthy as a reporting quality tool. Going forward, we suggest research <em>values</em>, rather than consolidation or consensus, offer a sounder foundation for developing assessment tools for reporting quality.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":93338,"journal":{"name":"Methods in Psychology (Online)","volume":"11 ","pages":"Article 100155"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590260124000213/pdfft?md5=aa50f8a379c7d7e4914a221934457dac&pid=1-s2.0-S2590260124000213-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141985420","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":"Examining Black girls’ mathematics and science dispositions using large-scale assessment and survey data: A QuantCrit framework","authors":"Thao T. Vo,&nbsp;Shenghai Dai,&nbsp;Brian F. French","doi":"10.1016/j.metip.2024.100158","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.metip.2024.100158","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Early exposure to mathematics and science is vital for fostering interest in STEM. However, gender and racial inequities are embedded barriers within education systems, particularly affecting young Black girls. This study draws from a QuantCrit framework, combining advanced statistical methods and Critical Race Theory (CRT) to explore Black girls’ mathematics and science dispositions. Latent Profile Analysis is used to explore unique, characterized groups of Black girls based on their confidence, interest, value, and motivation toward STEM topics. Each profile is examined with distal achievement outcomes and opportunity-to-learn factors. Implications of this race-focused work are discussed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":93338,"journal":{"name":"Methods in Psychology (Online)","volume":"11 ","pages":"Article 100158"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590260124000249/pdfft?md5=87446ebb37dc144c8aea171df3f7f37e&pid=1-s2.0-S2590260124000249-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141736485","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 critical and interpretive synthesis of arts-based methods used by dance therapy researchers: A perspective from the creative arts therapies","authors":"Ella Dumaresq ,&nbsp;Katrina Skewes McFerran","doi":"10.1016/j.metip.2024.100152","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.metip.2024.100152","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The creative arts therapies are a group of modality specific disciplines that include dance, music, drama and art. Creative arts therapists take an arts-based approach to practice which often results in the privileging of alternate ways of knowing, such as non-verbal, artistic, and embodied forms of expression and meaning-making. The rising interest in arts-based research in our field, as well as within psychology, has prompted us – a dance therapist and music therapist - to take a closer look at the research literature to ascertain the function and purpose of existing arts-based research approaches in the creative arts therapies. Using dance therapy as an example, we conducted a rigorous interpretive review of 12 dance therapy arts-based research articles to help answer the question - ‘what is the function and purpose of arts-based research in dance therapy?‘. As part of our review, we used an arts-based process to synthesise data and to strengthen our analytic process in a manner congruent with artistic ‘ways of knowing.’ Our exploration led us to recognise that arts-based processes appear to enable the ‘illustration’ and ‘illumination’ of novel understanding in ways that are often more difficult to arrive at when using other qualitative research methods. Furthermore, arts-based research can be useful for facilitating researcher reflexivity, which may be used in service of deepening the interpretive process in qualitative research. However, our involvement with the dance therapy publications also revealed a clear shortcoming for the field: at present there appears to be a clear lack of focus on direct client engagement in the arts-based research literature. As such, arts-based research in the field of dance therapy seems to be somewhat removed from professional practice and appears to instead fulfil a more scholarly or self-reflective purpose. Based on this discovery, we offer some recommendations for those interested in pursuing arts-based research within both psychology as well as creative arts therapies, and in doing so highlight the importance of client voice and experience in health-focused research.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":93338,"journal":{"name":"Methods in Psychology (Online)","volume":"11 ","pages":"Article 100152"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590260124000183/pdfft?md5=2b5c74511d3ed2249f5dd08a09d80ab3&pid=1-s2.0-S2590260124000183-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141630124","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}