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Editorial introduction to the special issue: Using story completion methods in qualitative research

Clarke, Victoria; Braun, Virginia; Frith, Hannah; Moller, Naomi

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Dr Victoria Clarke Victoria.Clarke@uwe.ac.uk
Associate Professor in Qualitative & Critical Psychology

Virginia Braun

Hannah Frith

Naomi Moller



Abstract

What is story completion? How come I’ve never heard of it? Can it be useful for me as a qualitative researcher? A relatively unknown method for qualitative data collection, story completion has a long history of use in psychotherapy practice and (quantitative) developmental psychology research. We believe it has untapped, exciting potential as a qualitative technique in and beyond psychology, offering something quite different to many of the more popular methods used (e.g. interviews, focus groups). In this paper – an introduction to an exciting Special Issue that discusses and demonstrates the potential of story completion – we provide a brief history of the development of story completion as a qualitative technique, and an overview of design, sampling, and data analysis in story completion research. We finish by highlighting potential pitfalls of story completion, alongside discussion of the possibilities it offers, and briefly introduce the empirical papers in the Special Issue.

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Clarke, V., Braun, V., Frith, H., & Moller, N. (2019). Editorial introduction to the special issue: Using story completion methods in qualitative research. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 16(1), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/14780887.2018.1536378

Journal Article Type Editorial
Acceptance Date Aug 11, 2018
Online Publication Date Jan 25, 2019
Publication Date Jan 25, 2019
Deposit Date Sep 12, 2018
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal Qualitative Research in Psychology
Print ISSN 1478-0887
Electronic ISSN 1478-0895
Publisher Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
Peer Reviewed Not Peer Reviewed
Volume 16
Issue 1
Pages 1-20
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/14780887.2018.1536378
Keywords applied research, comparative design, construction, discourse, projective techniques, story maps, story stem, thematic analysis
Public URL https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/863005

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