Abstract

This paper aims to expand knowledge on the application of formal concept analysis, a mathematical theory, to the elaboration of a repertory grid, which is a method designed for exploring the structure and content of a respondent’s system of constructs. After a critical reexamination of the ways in which the commonly used statistical procedures for the analysis of repertory grids can affect data analysis, we revisit an alternative methodology that is more consistent with both personal construct theory and measurement properties of the variables collected by means of repertory grids. We use a classic example of repertory grid technique and describe it according to both traditional analysis and the alternative methodology. This comparison is aimed at displaying how formal concept analysis applied to repertory grids can provide all the main measures and cognitive indexes that are included in traditional repertory grid analysis. We then provide further evidence to highlight how this proposal can be used to collect more consistent and detailed information from repertory grids, thus preserving the nature of the respondents’ data.

摘要

本文旨在扩展关于应用形式概念分析（一种数学理论）的知识，以详细说明目录网格，这是一种旨在探索受访者构念系统的结构和内容的方法。在对用于分析库网格的常用统计程序影响数据分析的方式进行了严格的重新审查之后，我们重新审视了一种替代方法，该方法更符合个人建构理论和通过库收集的变量的测量特性网格。我们使用了一个经典的曲目网格技术示例，并根据传统分析和替代方法对其进行了描述。这种比较旨在展示应用于曲目网格的正式概念分析如何提供传统曲目网格分析中包含的所有主要度量和认知指标。然后，我们提供进一步的证据来强调如何使用该建议从目录网格中收集更一致和更详细的信息，从而保留受访者数据的性质。