Interrogating paradigmatic commitments of focus group methodology: An invitation to context-sensitive qualitative research methods.

Abstract

Interrogating paradigmatic commitments of focus group methodology: An invitation to context-sensitive qualitative research methods. Qualitative Psychology.

Stakeholder Perceptions of the Acceptability of Peer-Mediated Intervention for Minimally Speaking Preschoolers on the Autism Spectrum

“…Their rate of speech is fast and there was little deviation from the questions in the interview script. When engaging with people from various sociocultural backgrounds it can be necessary to challenge some of the beliefs that we hold about what is appropriate or sufficient when using qualitative methods (Chauhan & Sehgal, 2022 ). The first author conducted each interview.…”

What Is a White Epistemology in Psychological Science? A Critical Race-Theoretical Analysis

“…The apparent increasing usage of qualitative methods in psychology expands the range of phenomena that count as scientific ( Gergen et al, 2015 ). However, qualitative methods, from the perspective of this argument, are not superior and require the same ontic and epistemic discussions as quantitative methods and may have their own white epistemic assumptions (see also Chauhan and Sehgal, 2022 ). To be fair, qualitative researchers emphasize the need to add more epistemic dimensions to the assessment of knowledge, including reflexivity (e.g., Finlay and Gough, 2003 ).…”

Dignity and well-being: Narratives of modifying the culture of engineering education to improve mental health among underrepresented STEM students

“…Each student participant also generated creative content in the form of drawings, paintings, poetry, and/or photography (Leavy, 2017), which were excluded in this paper due to space constraints, but this content will be shared at the conference presentation. Summaries of each student's data and content findings were provided back to them for their review and approval for use in keeping with culturally responsive methods (Berryman et al, 2013), and a focus group with all three participants was used at the end of the study to consolidate findings and create recommendations (Chauhan & Sehgal, 2022). Student participants were paid with a $100 VISA gift card at the end of data collection as compensation for their time, labor, and for sharing their lived experiences, which required a form of emotional rigor due to the creative materialist framework.…”