{"title":"Pictures and processes: The use of autophotography to illustrate the experience of physical activity engagement in motherhood","authors":"Talia Ritondo , Corliss Bean , Iris Lesser","doi":"10.1016/j.metip.2024.100139","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.metip.2024.100139","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We discuss using the qualitative arts-based method of autophotography by sharing our experiences conducting three studies with postpartum women as they navigated the psychosocial challenges of physical activity (PA) engagement. In working with this population, we used autophotography in conjunction with feminist theory by centering participants’ voices, highlighting the presence of the gendered expectations of motherhood in PA engagement, and providing tools for transformation and empowerment. Throughout our paper, we reflect on the process of conducting autophotography in our studies with postpartum women and theorize how this method provided an important medium for mothers to share their voices and stories.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":93338,"journal":{"name":"Methods in Psychology (Online)","volume":"10 ","pages":"Article 100139"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590260124000055/pdfft?md5=dc5126fc347bc3e057350175ac718af5&pid=1-s2.0-S2590260124000055-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140327796","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":"Arts-based methods as a critical and decolonising process in global mental health: Reflections on popular discourse, artistic rigour and limitations.","authors":"Matthew Elliott","doi":"10.1016/j.metip.2024.100137","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.metip.2024.100137","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Due to masculine expectations and cultural perceptions, Luo and Busoga men, in their respective countries of Kenya and Uganda, can experience a range of mental health conditions which can lead to violent and problematic behaviours. Over an 18 month period in 2022/23, Masculinities and Mental Health used bottom-up, culturally responsive, arts and health workshops to seek to understand the cultural causes of stress and depression reported by men in Luo and Busoga cultures. The project included a two month arts-based residency in Osiri village, Kisumu County (Kenya) and a four week residency in Walukuba, Jinja (Uganda) working with groups of men to explore definitions of mental health via arts-based research methodologies. This article will present examples from the research whilst critically interrogating the possibilities of arts-based research contributing to an ongoing process of decolonising mental health practices in East Africa. The paper is focused on three dilemmas and learnings that occurred during the project; balancing the relationship between popular and progressive ideas in health care research, the complications of developing the 'art' in arts-based research and the inherent limitations of arts-based research in developing impact. I argue that arts-based research can effectively contribute to wider efforts of decolonising mental health by enabling participatory spaces to explore indigenous knowledge and lived experience. However, such efforts could be advanced if arts-based research engaged with systemic structures which enforce Global North practices and ignore culturally specific understandings of mental health.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":93338,"journal":{"name":"Methods in Psychology (Online)","volume":"10 ","pages":"Article 100137"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590260124000031/pdfft?md5=6155f956885b6617181bc83b674fb460&pid=1-s2.0-S2590260124000031-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140296019","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}
Rabab Mukred , Anusha Kassan , Maryam Qureshi , José F. Domene , Tanya Mudry
{"title":"Weaving many threads: Reflections on data analysis and rigour in arts-based engagement ethnography","authors":"Rabab Mukred , Anusha Kassan , Maryam Qureshi , José F. Domene , Tanya Mudry","doi":"10.1016/j.metip.2024.100138","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.metip.2024.100138","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper explores the value of Arts Based Engagement Ethnography (ABEE) when working with people from vulnerable or minoritized communities. ABEE is situated at the juncture of social justice theory, arts-based methods, and critical ethnography. Through a worked example of a study with newcomer youth, we demonstrate how artistic probes, interviews, and group discussions can be combined in a rich multimodal analysis. In addition, we bring attention to aspects of rigour and ethics throughout the analysis. We conclude by reflecting on our process of maintaining rigour, and invite readers into contending with questions of rigour that we encountered.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":93338,"journal":{"name":"Methods in Psychology (Online)","volume":"10 ","pages":"Article 100138"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590260124000043/pdfft?md5=7ce41b78ed3703bbc6a35e21b8f7f486&pid=1-s2.0-S2590260124000043-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140191436","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":"Combining collaging, phenomenology and photographs to meaningfully interact with participants’ creative self-representations","authors":"William Day, Michael Larkin, Rachel Shaw","doi":"10.1016/j.metip.2024.100135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.metip.2024.100135","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study advances the integration of creative and visual methods within phenomenological psychology research. Photovoice is a common visual research methodology used in health research. In studies that combine photovoice with Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis, images often only serve to illustrate the analysis of the interview data, despite being powerful illustrations of participants capturing their altered ways of being-in-the-world. As researchers, how can we engage more meaningfully with participants' self-representations?</p><p>This paper explores the analysis of visual materials created by participants by treating their photographs as interpretable data, separate from their interview data. Further innovations are present in the communication of qualitative findings. In a continued commitment to the visual, analytical findings are shown through collages of participants’ photographs. These novel approaches are demonstrated through an exploration of how participants employ photographs to depict their day-to-day experiences of living with 'unseen' chronic health conditions whilst navigating UK health-based welfare systems. Collaging is used within a phenomenological analysis to visually illustrate the features of these experiences.</p><p>While delving into the differing ways of understanding made possible through creative methods, we argue that visual displays of analyses offer new avenues for demonstrating and creating impact in qualitative research.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":93338,"journal":{"name":"Methods in Psychology (Online)","volume":"10 ","pages":"Article 100135"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590260124000018/pdfft?md5=c80e7774771d3ae1d17cfea6ea7df89b&pid=1-s2.0-S2590260124000018-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140052822","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}
Christine V. Wood , Ida Salusky , Remi F. Jones , Robin Remich , Anne E. Caliendo , Richard McGee
{"title":"Using longitudinal qualitative research to understand the experiences of minoritized people","authors":"Christine V. Wood , Ida Salusky , Remi F. Jones , Robin Remich , Anne E. Caliendo , Richard McGee","doi":"10.1016/j.metip.2023.100130","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.metip.2023.100130","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper demonstrates how Longitudinal Qualitative Research (LQR) is an innovative method to understand the lived experiences of members of minoritized groups when temporality is a structuring element of their experiences. Most qualitative research in psychology is cross-sectional, which limits our understanding of individuals whose experiences are context-dependent and linked to the temporal norms of specific social environments. LQR is unique for allowing researchers to compare change and stability over time and reveal how social challenges and barriers impact perspective shifts and long-term decision-making. To demonstrate the usefulness of LQR as an inclusive methodology, we discuss an ongoing study of career decision-making among a diverse cohort of biomedical scientists. We have used annual interviews to follow biomedical science trainees from the beginning of their PhD into the initial stages of their careers. We present case studies of minoritized scientists to illustrate the methods for long-term engagement used to elicit sensitive and critical information during their training. We show how LQR is a viable methodology for a variety of research questions and can be accomplished using large or small sample sizes and limited resources. Our primary goal is to show how LQR is useful to understand the experiences of minoritized individuals in contexts that have historically excluded them.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":93338,"journal":{"name":"Methods in Psychology (Online)","volume":"10 ","pages":"Article 100130"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590260123000218/pdfft?md5=0344f7b5a9c311b65495788178bc32fd&pid=1-s2.0-S2590260123000218-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138678486","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":"Applying qualitative youth and adult perspectives to investigate quantitative survey components with a novel “crosswalk” analysis","authors":"Isabella Fante, Colette Daiute","doi":"10.1016/j.metip.2023.100121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.metip.2023.100121","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper presents an innovative qualitative “crosswalk” analysis that extends sociocultural narrative theory and method to evaluate data obtained from survey measures in a mixed methods approach. This offers a unique method, centered within an activity-meaning system, to apply qualitative narrative analytic techniques to questions posed by quantitative survey measures, coding survey questions by using values that emerged from participants’ narratives of experience. In this way, this novel technique allows for interpretation of surveys via a lens that privileges participant-generated qualitative data. This research is situated in a broader study that sought to examine the intersection of social-emotional learning and school climate constructs in lived experiences. Results of this analysis extend the complexity of relational understandings of human development by including surveys as institutional narratives, with theoretical and methodological implications for future research.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":93338,"journal":{"name":"Methods in Psychology (Online)","volume":"8 ","pages":"Article 100121"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49799984","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Applying qualitative youth and adult perspectives to investigate quantitative survey components with a novel “crosswalk” analysis","authors":"Isabella Fante, C. Daiute","doi":"10.1016/j.metip.2023.100121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.metip.2023.100121","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":93338,"journal":{"name":"Methods in Psychology (Online)","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"54827893","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Use and misuse of corrections for multiple testing","authors":"Miguel A. García-Pérez","doi":"10.1016/j.metip.2023.100120","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.metip.2023.100120","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Current psychological research addresses multifaceted questions demanding multiple analyses of data. Statistical analyses regarded as instances of multiple testing are often subjected to alpha adjustments to guard against inflation of Type-I errors. A review of papers published in the last two years in two major psychology journals shows inconsistent and discretionary use of alpha adjustments in a broad diversity of statistical analyses that are formally identical across papers. Authoritative sources also do not clarify the circumstances in which alpha adjustments should or should not be used. This paper describes the workings of Bonferroni and false-discovery-rate adjustments, showing that they only control the Type-I error rate for an (omnibus) hypothesis stating that all its individual (surrogate) nulls are true. For individual nulls, alpha adjustment only has the trivial consequences of the use of a lower alpha level, without reducing the occurrence of Type-I errors or Type-II errors below their expected rates. In practice, then, corrections for multiple testing only come down to testing individual hypotheses at a lower alpha level without preventing the rejection of true nulls and without favoring the rejection of false nulls. Thus, use of alpha adjustments is only justifiable for inferences about an omnibus null for which a one-shot statistical test does not exist and which must instead be tested piecewise via several surrogates that collectively speak about the omnibus null. Recommendations for the use and reporting of alpha adjustments are given for a variety of statistical analyses with which they are often implemented.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":93338,"journal":{"name":"Methods in Psychology (Online)","volume":"8 ","pages":"Article 100120"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46464311","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
F.L. Truijens , M.M. De Smet , M. Vandevoorde , M. Desmet , R. Meganck
{"title":"What is it like to be the object of research? On meaning making in self-report measurement and validity of data in psychotherapy research","authors":"F.L. Truijens , M.M. De Smet , M. Vandevoorde , M. Desmet , R. Meganck","doi":"10.1016/j.metip.2023.100118","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.metip.2023.100118","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this paper, we argue (1) that self-report measurement is meaningful. ‘John’, a patient-participant in psychotherapy research, is presented to illustrate meaning-making processes in self-report measurement. We show that neglecting individual scoring processes might lead to invalidation of data. Therefore, (2) we argue that it is vital to actively validate data collected by validated measures. As numerical data themselves do not ‘show’ whether they are valid, the story of data collection must be taken into account. Therefore, we argue that mixing qualitative and quantitative methods is necessary for <em>meaningful measurement</em>, which is paramount to progress in psychological science and practice.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":93338,"journal":{"name":"Methods in Psychology (Online)","volume":"8 ","pages":"Article 100118"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47461063","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Thomas E. Malloy , Charles F. Bond Jr. , Sarit Pery , Avraham N. Kluger
{"title":"Key person designs: Logic and statistical modeling","authors":"Thomas E. Malloy , Charles F. Bond Jr. , Sarit Pery , Avraham N. Kluger","doi":"10.1016/j.metip.2023.100119","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.metip.2023.100119","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A key person (KP) is an individual embedded in dyadic relationships in the core groups of life. Introduced are three research designs: the nomothetic, idiographic, and fixed-role Key Person Designs (KPD). Leveraging social relations modeling (SRM) of dyadic data, we introduce hypotheses and statistical methods for testing them with KPD. We developed a Monte Carlo simulation to determine if a KP is, in fact, statistically unusual vis-à-vis nonspecial others. We provide an empirical example. Hypotheses specified and modeling of KPD data are very general, and we discuss implications for inclusive methodology.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":93338,"journal":{"name":"Methods in Psychology (Online)","volume":"8 ","pages":"Article 100119"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45005065","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}