The Use of Laddering: Techniques, Applications and Problems

Walker, Beverly M.; Crittenden, Nadia

doi:10.1002/9781119953616.ch3

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“…The current paper reports on part of the findings from a qualitative semi-structured interview which was adapted from laddering interview techniques to explore participant construing, superordinate constructs, and strategies to engage and support non-White and White clients [ 45 ]. Interviews ranged from 45 to 90 min with the average time being 60 min.…”

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Australian mental health care practitioners’ construing of non-White and White people: implications for cultural competence and therapeutic alliance

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Background The development of cultural competence is central to the therapeutic alliance with clients from diverse backgrounds. Given that the majority of Australia’s population growth is due to migration, mental health practitioner construing of non-White and White people has a significant role and impact on client engagement. Method To examine the impact of mental health practitioner construing on their strategies for cultural competence and the therapeutic alliance, 20 White and non-White mental health practitioners and trainees providing mental health services were purposively sampled and interviewed face-to-face or via videoconferencing. Data was analysed thematically and the impact of construing on practitioner cultural competence and the therapeutic alliance were interpreted using Personal Construct Psychology. Results Practitioners demonstrated cultural competence in their acknowledgement of the impact of negative construing of ethnic, cultural, religious, social, racial and linguistic diversity on client wellbeing. Practitioners sought to address these negative impacts on clients by drawing on the client-practitioner relationship to improve the therapeutic alliance. Conclusions The results reinforce the need for mental health care workers to develop cultural competence with a focus on developing awareness of the impact of frameworks of Whiteness on the experiences of non-White people. This is central to the development of a therapeutic alliance where clients feel understood and assured that their mental health concerns will not be constructed (and treated) through a framework that constrains both White and non-White people’s opportunities for improved mental health and wellbeing.

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“…Researchers must constantly be on the lookout for such things as informants making mistakes when rating the constructs, not adequately expressing the implicit construct, or providing elements that do not indicate empirical roles, observable interactions, activities, or events. Walker and Crittenden (2012, p. 80) also warn that when a session has been poorly designed, unwelcome surprises can emerge for both the informant and the researcher. Poor procedure results in going through the repertory grid process with an informant, only to find that one has little to show for their time and effort.…”

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Using Repertory Grids as a Tool for Mixed Methods Research: A Critical Assessment

Hadley

Grogan

2022

Journal of Mixed Methods Research

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When used in an informed and careful manner, the repertory grid technique offers mixed methods researchers a way to quickly gain a deeper understanding of their participants’ concerns, issues, and worldviews. This paper critically assesses the potential contributions of the repertory grid technique when used in mixed methods research. After providing a background survey and description of this relatively little-known research instrument, the strengths and limitations of repertory grids are considered. This report discusses some of the ways that this technique can significantly enhance the quality of the data collected from research participants within the three core models of the mixed method design framework.

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“…The interviews involved the following steps: 1) the participants firstly declared whether they saw themselves as successful or unsuccessful students; 2) then they were encouraged to recognize in themselves different ways of thinking about their school success, different ways in which they perceived their personal experiences of school success; 3) leading from the standpoint of polyphony, the researchers encouraged the students to perceive those various viewpoints as metaphoric voices, which could be in different mutual relationships; 4) then followed the elicitation of voices and their graphic presentation, whereby the students named the voices and wrote down short narratives which reflected the position of each one; 5) further on, the participants were encouraged to "recognize" in some of their thoughts and messages the voices of significant others, such as those of their parents, teachers, peers, and similar, and to complement their communities of selves with them; 6) finally, the participants described the relationships between the elicited voices taking into consideration the dimensions of domination versus marginalization and cooperation versus conflict. The laddering technique (Hinkle, 1965;Walker & Crittenden, 2012) was used in the interviews to map personal constructs as semantic bipolar dimensions through which the participants conceptualized opposing experiences regarding school success. The interviews lasted around one hour and audio recordings were made with the participants' approval.…”

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The Multiple Self: Between Sociality and Dominance

Dzinovic¹

2020

Journal of Constructivist Psychology

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We begin from the current approaches to the multiple self -Bakhtin's concept of polyphony, Mair's community of self and Hermans' dialogical self theory. Polyphony assumes that the self consists of multiple different voices, which simultaneously exist and interact in complex dialogical relations. The metaphor of the community of self enables us to perceive how the individual, depending on a specific social context, can use different selves, as subsystems of constructs which are mutually incompatible. Dialogical self theory enriches the idea of the polyphonic self with the idea of the extended I, in which the voices of others appear as simultaneous external and internalized I-positions. Further on this paper proposes that the understanding of the multiple self is complemented by the implementation of the concepts of sociality and relations of domination. Then, a methodological approach is presented for the study of sociality and dominance in the multiple self. The paper also presents a case study of a successful student's community of self as an illustration of the implementation of this methodological approach. The case study shows that the student's community of selves is marked by tension between dominant voices and voices of resistance which always have the potential to change the balance of power, making the sense of self as a student both changeable and inconsistent. The other significant finding is that the role relationships which are established between some voices could serve to either establish or maintain the domination in the multiple self.

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The Use of Laddering: Techniques, Applications and Problems

Cited by 7 publications

References 22 publications

Australian mental health care practitioners’ construing of non-White and White people: implications for cultural competence and therapeutic alliance

Australian mental health care practitioners’ construing of non-White and White people: implications for cultural competence and therapeutic alliance

Using Repertory Grids as a Tool for Mixed Methods Research: A Critical Assessment

The Multiple Self: Between Sociality and Dominance

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