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Introduction to phenomenological psychological research
Author(s) -
BULLINGTON JENNIFER,
KARLSSON GUNNAR
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.1984.tb01000.x
Subject(s) - psychology , phenomenon , phenomenological method , phenomenology (philosophy) , interpretative phenomenological analysis , psychological research , epistemology , meaning (existential) , social psychology , psychotherapist , qualitative research , sociology , social science , philosophy
This report presents an introduction to phenomenological psychological research. A brief theoretical section on Husserl's phenomenological philosophy is followed by a comparison between phenomenological psychology and traditional psychology and a tutorial example of the phenomenological method in psychological research. The authors argue for the necessity of a phenomenological descriptive approach to psychological research which seeks to discover the meaning of various phenomena using the descriptions of subjects' experiences. The results of a phenomenological psychological study consist of a structural description of the phenomenon in question, which basically describes the what and how of a specific phenomenon rather than the explanatory why .