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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"life story interview"”.
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Engaging the Brave and the Bold: Exploring the Discourses of Disability Through Life Stories
… of disability that emerge from participants' life stories. This study interviewed 20 participants using a modified version of McAdams' (1993) Life Story Interview Protocol. Utilizing Relational Dialectics Theory and a thematic discourse analysis, two primary discourses emerged from participant …
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It’s Not What You (Don’t) Eat, It’s What Eats You: Countering the U.S. Eating Disorder Master Narrative
… Using a modified version of McAdams’ (2008b) life story interview protocol, I interviewed 21 women and analyzed their eating disorder life stories according to two analysis techniques – Braun and Clarke’s (2006) thematic analytic method and Yamasaki et al.’s (2014) approaches to narrative …
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Understanding desistance from sexual offending
… process. A total of 32 participants were interviewed using a semi-structured life story interview. Data was analysed using thematic analysis, looking for commonalities across and within narratives. Theory was developed using a grounded theory methodology. The results show that desistance …
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A narrative study of the spouses of traumatized Canadian soldiers
… the soldiers' families. For this study, in-depth interviews were conducted with six spouses of former peacekeeping Canadian soldiers who received group therapy for PTSD. Using the Life Story interview method, a spontaneous picture of the spouses' experiences was elicited as part of a comprehensive …
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Overcoming the Cancer Experience: Narrative Identity in Young Adult Survivors of Childhood Cancer
… growth suggests that developing a coherent life-story narrative, making meaning, and finding benefits from negative life events, can contribute to better psychosocial adjustment. The aim of the present study was twofold: understanding the mechanisms that link young adults’ cancer experience …
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Examining the experiences and decision-making processes of underrepresented students at a post-1992 University
… of higher education. This was based upon life-story interviews with current students alongside semi-structured interviews with internal and external staff members in various roles associated with widening participation. A Bourdieusian theoretical framework was implemented, which …
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Connections Through Stories In A Small Town in Rural Virginia
… used stories to collect qualitative data and life experiences to create or change a community narrative and address community trauma (Hyman, 2002; Rappaport, 2000). While existing research describes the power of stories and provides storytelling techniques, this research study identified a new …