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Qualitative Story Completion Methods

from Part I - Textual Data Collection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 October 2017

By
Victoria Clarke ,
Nikki Hayfield ,
Naomi Moller ,
Irmgard Tischner  and
Edited by
Virginia Braun ,
Victoria Clarke  and
Debra Gray
Virginia Braun
Affiliation:
University of Auckland
Victoria Clarke
Affiliation:
University of the West of England, Bristol
Debra Gray
Affiliation:
University of Winchester
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Collecting Qualitative Data
A Practical Guide to Textual, Media and Virtual Techniques
 , pp. 15 - 44
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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Further Resources: Online

The companion website for Braun and Clarke’s (2013) book Successful qualitative research: A practical guide for beginners provides examples of SC research materials and a ‘perceptions of a parent coming out as transgendered’ SC datset to practice coding and analysis with: www.uk.sagepub.com/braunandclarke

Further Resources: Readings

The paper that introduced SC as a qualitative method: Kitzinger, C. and Powell, D. (1995). Engendering infidelity: Essentialist and social constructionist readings of a story completion task. Feminism & Psychology, 5(3), 345–372.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Braun and Clarke further developed the SC method for qualitative research (see Chapters 6 and 10): Braun, V. and Clarke, V. (2013). Successful qualitative research: A practical guide for beginners. London: Sage Publications.Google Scholar
Read about one of the examples discussed in more detail: Clarke, V., Braun, V. and Wooles, K. (2015). Thou shalt not covet another man? Exploring constructions of same-sex and different-sex infidelity using story completion. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 25(2), 153–166.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
An example of a thematic analysis of SC data: Frith, H. (2013). Accounting for orgasmic absence: Exploring heterosex using the story completion method. Psychology & Sexuality, 4(3), 310–322.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
An example of a discursive analysis of SC data: Walsh, E. and Malson, H. (2010). Discursive constructions of eating disorders: A story completion task. Feminism & Psychology, 20(4), 529–537.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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