Qualitative Daily Diary Data: What Nuance and Meaning Can It Add to Quantitative Rating Scale Data?
(2024) MethodsNET Conference 2024 — Location: Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium (31.October.2024)
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- Ecological momentary assessment or daily diary data has become widespread within psychology research, particularly for research questions about fluctuations or change over time. Much of this data is purely quantitative, with participants rating items every few hours or every day on a numeric scale. Many researchers question how much meaning and nuance is lost when participants have no opportunity to add context in their own words, particularly when prompted about their daily life. In two previous data collections about parenting experiences and interactions with family members (one with part of the de-identified data already shared: https://osf.io/5sgkr/), participants could also write in any additional context they wished to, via an open box at the end of each daily prompt. We seek to analyze this rich qualitative data (with over 600 prompts filled by over 66 participants) via content coding, inspired by qualitative coding traditions (e.g., Saldaña, 2021). We do so to describe participants' qualitative data and highlight the variety and main themes, but also seek to relate the qualitative codes to participants' quantitative ratings. Feedback on the qualitative coding process, description of qualitative codes, as well as on ways to relate the qualitative codes to quantitative intensive longitudinal data, would be particularly welcome.
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Blanchard, A., & et al. (2024). Qualitative Daily Diary Data: What Nuance and Meaning Can It Add to Quantitative Rating Scale Data? MethodsNET Conference 2024, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/234327