Qualitative Research: An Introduction to Methods and Designs
by STEPHEN D. LAPAN, MARYLYNN T. QUARTAROLI, FRANCES JULIA RIEMER
Summary
The majority of the most influential theories in the field of psychology had their origins in biography and life story research. Historically, biography and life story research has been a form of single case study research, although more contemporary research uses multiple cases as well as critical life episodes collected from a large number of participants. The goal of this research method can be theory development or testing theory and the development of general concepts about persons and lives. Steps followed in biography and life story research vary across researchers; a few scholars have developed data collection tools, analytic methods, and coding schemes that are guided by thematic content analysis and are widely available on the ...
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