Mapping qualitative research in psychology across five Central-Eastern European countries: Contemporary trends: A paradigm analysis,Qualitative Research in Psychology

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Mapping qualitative research in psychology across five Central-Eastern European countries: Contemporary trends: A paradigm analysis
Qualitative Research in Psychology ( IF 19.0 ) Pub Date : 2019-05-22 , DOI: 10.1080/14780887.2019.1605271
Asztrik Kovács _{1,

2} , Dániel Kiss _{1,

2} , Szilvia Kassai _{1,

2} , Eszter Pados _{1,

2} , Zsuzsa Kaló ₂ , József Rácz _{2,

3}

Affiliation

ABSTRACT This study describes the current state of qualitative psychology and gives an overview of the philosophical paradigms used in English language qualitative psychology studies from the post-socialist countries of Central Eastern Europe. For political and historical reasons, academic life of this area is unique, providing a special field for investigation. This study explored the following research questions: Which philosophical paradigms are used in qualitative psychology? What kind of methods are applied? What kind of fields in psychology are examined? Thirty-five articles were analysed from five countries. Articles were examined through their paradigmatic considerations, using a dichotomous qualitative quasi-testing to distinguish positivist/postpositivist from interpretive/constructivist paradigms. We examined the methodology and content of various articles and analysed the keywords to explore common themes of interest. A dominant constructivist philosophical approach was present. Pure positivist articles were found to be quite rare, but mixed paradigms seemed to be frequent. Most of the methodologies were not specified. In terms of interest, the most commonly examined field was found to be social psychology. In the postsocialist era, mixed paradigms were conspicuous since culture and tradition might have had a significant effect on ontology, epistemology, and knowledge of the researcher.

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