To identify the dominant cultural models among parents transmitting faith to their children, we find few methodological guidelines to guide coding and analysis of semi-structured interviews. We thus developed a three-phase procedure for our research team. Phase-one follows Campbell et al. by unitizing on meanings rather than words/pages, including creating decision rules documents, keyword lists, and summary memos. We provide empirical support for the reliability of those procedures and contribute by adding final validity checks into phase one and a new set of second-order coding procedures as phase two and phase three, as suggested by Miles and Huberman, to transform theme analysis into patterned findings. Phase two codes the latent patterns underlying the phase-one thematic codes. Phase three quantifies phase-two codes into matrices. Although time intensive, other researchers can apply these procedures to produce transparent, auditable findings.

为了确定将信仰传递给孩子的父母中占主导地位的文化模式，我们发现很少有方法指南来指导半结构化访谈的编码和分析。因此，我们为研究团队开发了一个分为三个阶段的程序。第一阶段遵循坎贝尔等人。通过统一含义而非单词/页面，包括创建决策规则文档，关键字列表和摘要备忘录。我们为这些程序的可靠性提供了经验支持，并通过在Miles和Huberman的建议下将最终的有效性检查添加到第一阶段以及新的第二阶编码程序（即第二阶段和第三阶段）中做出了贡献，从而将主题分析转变为模式化发现。第二阶段对第一阶段主题代码的潜在模式进行编码。第三阶段将第二阶段的代码量化为矩阵。