Thematic
analysis in psychology is used in qualitative research and focuses on examining
themes within data. This method emphasizes organization and rich description of
the data set. Data set refers to all the data from
the corpus that are being used for a particular analysis. Thematic analysis goes beyond
simply counting phrases or words in a text and moves on to identifying implicit
and explicit ideas within the data. Coding is
the primary process for developing themes within the raw data by recognizing
important moments in the data and encoding it prior to interpretation. The
interpretation of these codes can include comparing theme frequencies,
identifying theme co-occurrence, and graphically displaying relationships
between different themes. Thematic analysis is widely
used, but there is no clear agreement about what thematic analysis is and how
you go about doing it (79). However one of the benefits of thematic analysis is
its flexibility. Qualitative analytic methods can be roughly divided into two
camps. Thematic analysis differs from other analytic methods that seek to
describe patterns across qualitative data. It is unlike the theoretical
commitments of grounded theory if they do not wish to produce a fully worked-up
grounded-theory analysis. (81) Thus the clarity on process and practice of
method is vital.
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