Story Completion Methods in Qualitative Research
Year: 2025
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: This chapter reviews existing scholarship on qualitative story completion. We explicate the theoretical assumptions of qualitative story completion, demonstrating that what you can claim to have IDENTIFIED varies considerably, depending on whether you assume your data provide access to essential psychological truths, social perceptions, or social constructions. We also explore key design considerations for qualitative story completion, including the potential for comparative designs—a less frequent practice in qualitative than quantitative research. We discuss different “types” of and considerations for, the story stem. We consider analytic approaches for qualitative story completion, including and extending beyond the most popular method to date, thematic analysis. We emphasize the unique data generation potential offered by qualitative story completion, and its ability to get at complex, and socially or politically sensitive research questions, in an ethically safe manner.
Source: Oxford University Press eBooks
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4413404909