Illuminating Patterns of Perception: An Overview of Q Methodology

Brown, Matthew

doi:10.21236/ada443484

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“…While judgment could also be used (see Pqmethod manual, 2007), the selected defining sorts seemed appropriate. After selecting the defining sorts, the factor scores for each factor (or group) are calculated as weighted means (normalized factor scores) of the scores given by the persons included, where the weight depends on the loading (Brown, 2004). These answers are then re-scaled to the original −3 to +3 scale to get the factor array.…”

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Stakeholder perspectives about proper participation for Regional Forest Programmes in Finland

Kangas

Saarinen

Saarikoski³

et al. 2010

Forest Policy and Economics

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Stakeholder perspectives about proper participation for Regional Forest Programmes in Finland

Kangas

Saarinen

Saarikoski³

et al. 2010

Forest Policy and Economics

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“…Rather than searching for trends in data related to factors such as age or sex (as with a conventional questionnaire), Q-methodology determines trends within and across individuals (Barry & Proops, 1999). This provides an individualised subjective weighting of the statements and can show similarities and differences in ranking across participants (Brown, 2004). Statements used for the ranking should be gathered from interviewing a subset of the target population on the topic, which can be supplemented by collecting information from other sources, such as newspapers or archives (Barry & Proops, 1999).…”

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Understanding the human dimensions of coexistence between carnivores and people: A case study in Namibia

Rust¹

2018

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Many carnivore populations were in decline throughout much of the 20 th century, but due to recent conservation policies, their numbers are stabilising or even increasing in some areas of the world. This, compounded with human population growth, has caused increased livestock depredation by carnivores, which threatens farmer livelihoods, particularly those in developing countries such as Namibia. How to resolve this so-called "conflict" between carnivores and livestock farmers remains challenging, in part because some mitigation strategies have proven somewhat ineffective or unacceptable. By using a case-study approach on the commercial farmlands of northcentral Namibia, I aimed to understand the complexity of the human dimensions affecting coexistence between carnivores and people in an unprotected working landscape. Specifically, my objectives were to 1) develop a participatory decisionmaking exercise to analyse the views of stakeholders on how they would like carnivores to be managed in unprotected lands, 2) understand how the media framed financial incentives to improve human-carnivore coexistence, and 3) determine if there were any underlying social, economic or political causes of negative human-carnivore interactions on commercial livestock farms.To answer objective 1, I developed a new decision-making exercise that combined Q-methodology and the Delphi technique to determine whether a diverse group of stakeholders could agree on how to manage carnivores on commercial farmland. A strong agreement was reached by participants: providing conservation education and training on livestock husbandry were acceptable and effective ways to improve coexistence with carnivores. This new also method highlighted areas of disagreement between stakeholders and showed that there were two different narratives on how carnivores should be managed. This method could be used by policy makers to help with participatory decision-making for resolving other conservation conflicts.To answer objective 2, I undertook content analysis of national newspapers to determine how the media framed articles on financial incentives to mitigate this conservation conflict. The most common (30%) financial incentive discussed was compensation -many (61%) of these articles framed compensation positively. Niki Rust © 2015However, upon categorising these articles into those where respondents were enrolled in compensation schemes compared with those who were not, a clear pattern emerged: articles were more likely (89%) to be framed ambivalently or negatively when respondents had experience of this financial incentive compared with respondents that did not. These results can help conservationists plan more effective communication interventions and anticipate issues that can affect the success of mitigation strategies.To answer objective 3, I undertook eight months of participant observation on livestock farms and interviewed 69 respondents and found that reported livestock depredation was associated with increased instances of poaching of wildl...

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“…The method has become popular once again as a way to reveal personal views (subjectivity) involved in any situation (Brown 2004; see recent examples by Borger et al [2013] and Zeller et al [2014]). The technique allows the researcher to identify, understand, and categorize individual perceptions and opinions, and then clusters groups of people based upon their commonalities and differences (McKeown and Thomas 1988).…”

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The study of citizen journalists' characteristics and values has gained relevance and popularity, but problems remain in operationalizing the ambiguous term, "citizen journalist." This study uses Q-methodology to determine the types of citizen journalists that exist in the newssphere, allowing citizens to define themselves. Through Q, categories of people are generated which are operant, revealing entirely new effects in ways that traditional questionnaires cannot. The factor analysis revealed three types of citizen journalists: The Nonchalant, Self-fulfillment Seeker; The Watchdog's Watchdog; and the Passionate Pro-hopeful. The Q-method proved valuable in identifying new ways of thinking about citizen journalism, confirming some traditional knowledge about citizen journalism, and offering new insights.

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Illuminating Patterns of Perception: An Overview of Q Methodology

Cited by 45 publications

References 7 publications

Stakeholder perspectives about proper participation for Regional Forest Programmes in Finland

Stakeholder perspectives about proper participation for Regional Forest Programmes in Finland

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