ANALYSING TRANSCRIPTS USING CODING
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ANALYSING TRANSCRIPTS USING CODING
Analysing phenomena using qualitative analysis usually generates large amounts of data. Understanding how to sift through that data in order to make meaning out of it is a large part of the research process. In this assignment, as you read through the transcripts provided, think about answers that may be pertinent to examining the research question. To prepare for this assignment, review this week’s Learning Resources and review both of the transcripts provided (attached) to complete this assignment.
Assignment:
• Code, categorize, and label data while looking for patterns and themes.
• Highlight phrases or words in the transcript that are relevant, important, or poignant to the research question.
• Remove those phrases and examine them separately.
• Sort out coded data into groups according to topics or labels, and look further for additional patterns and themes.
• Submit both of your analyses in one Word document.
Note: To prepare for this Discussion, review this week’s Learning Resources (attached).
Instructions:
1). Support the Assignment with specific references to all resources used in its preparation (including URL where applicable).
2). All sources must be scholarly.
3. Include In-text citations and references ALL in the APA format.
Resources: Creswell, J. W. (2013). Qualitative inquiry & research design: Choosing among five approaches (3rd ed. Chapter 8, pp. 179-212). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Qualitative Interview #1 Gennifer: Partial Verbatim Transcript
Investigator Gennifer
My intent was to provide classes and information with a chance to practice. Did I do that?
Mmhmm (positive), I think you did. It didn’t feel like high school though, like the teacher is up there and I am supposed to listen and pay attention. It was kind of interactive. And I, umm, I liked the candles and the gifts at the reception table, you did feel, like it was ok to come in.
What do you mean… ok to come in?
Well, I know this place, I come here for counselling, but it just felt welcoming. That blonde lady Sonja who helped you the first night, I like her. She’s a good reception person.
Thank you, I will pass that on to her. So you felt welcomed and it sounds like the room was comfortable?
MmmHmm (Postiive)
Which of the stress management techniques that you learned have you used?
The journaling. I wasn’t, I mean, I’m in school, I’m in college so I write all the time, but I never actually journaled. So I used that a little bit. I like that, I like that I can write whatever I want. And then the guided imagery, the second one that we did? That was, that’s pretty cool and I think about that one a lot.
Which one was that?
We went to the park. And sat on a swing. Yeah, that was a good one.
Talk about why that seemed special to you.
It was simple. I was something that I could really do. I can’t go sit on a mountain or go see the ocean. I don’t like get out of town that much. That’s something I can do. Before there wasn’t something that I could actually do, like, take action. Now I feel like I have SOMETHING to do.
Ahh, …
Yeah, there is a park by my apartment, that’s the one I had, like in my mind. I might not come back, it would be nice to just get away for a while and stay there. (laughs)
(laughs) I think I understand. What do you remember about the information on nutrition? researcher note
previous participants did not remember or apply concepts of a nutritional model to their practice, this question was validating that discovery.
Um, I remember talking about it and uh, I mean I didn’t really have much of a problem with uh, I mean, I don’t eat when I get sad or anything like that, if you’re talking about that. Trying to eat good snacks and stuff. OK, I know it was more than that. OK, I forget a bunch of it. (laughs) kind of boring …
Nutrition can be boring. Now that you’ve completed the stress management training, what tools do you have to use lifelong? Talk about that.
Oh yeah. The breathing. Definitely the breathing. It’s always with you, it’s so fast to get back in control with like, breathing mindfully. It’s just something to make me feel like I have control, I have this thing I can do now, rather than not doing anything. Oh and stress awareness.
What about being aware of stress… what has changed there?
Yeah, I think I am. Yeah, better at knowing. And then stopping and realising what hurts. What hurts at that moment. Right, right. How’s it affecting my body at the moment.
I had a stressful thing happen and breathing really helped. Well (laugh) guess it’s kind of necessary, but… Yeah, it worked. I have a tendency to breath real high and like (fast breathing, unintelligible) sometimes so, and it worked. (breathing slower) (Participant had hands on chest indicating depth of breathing)….
Yeah, that’s part of the awareness too. I know I am breathing, somehow I forgot that. I liked that part. It does slow me down. It’s like I am more aware, like you said… awake.
That there was a bunch of different things to choose from. You cut through all the stuff in those self help books and gave the basics, simple stuff but all the theory too. I understood all the things you taught. And, we got to practice it too, before we did it on our own.
What about survivors of childhood sexual abuse? Is this training for them?
Yeah, I think it is. But not just them, this is stuff everyone can use. But yeah, ‘specially for them. We need more help since we deal with stress the way we learned to WHEN we were being sexually abused.
How are they different when it comes to managing stress, how are you different because you’re a survivor?
I pick up on things, um, and I’m stressed more than I think more people are, and I, cuz, more things scare me, and so that’s the fight or flight that, it goes off a lot more often in my body than I think it does in other peoples. I mean, I jump all the time. I am COMPLETELY aware of all movement in a room. Then I go on to the next thing that might be alarming.
umm….
pause
And so, … Where you’re very aware of everything around you all the time, so that if there is something that makes a little noise, you hear it before…I think so. Yes. You’ll notice, I notice people before other people do, like, uh, that person doesn’t look right, and then somebody else will, you know, you’re just very aware of everything around you, and so if something looks scary over here, you’re going to. You get scared. And so your heart starts beating fast and like that.
Where should this be taught in the healing from childhood sexual abuse?
The beginning. Because the most stressful time. When you first let people know when, you know, if you have to go through the court process. It’s, it needs to be towards the beginning. Because then you know how to deal with it further on, so I think you would heal a lot quicker.
When you are healing…
Well, I mean, um, you realize it. I mean it’s like right in your face. That’s the only thing that’s in your face at that moment. And it’s constantly on your mind. Constantly. I mean, no matter what you’re doing, like ok, and people know then, because usually, when you come here, people find out and so you’re in counselling sessions and, and a lot of people go through court cases and it’s, it’s just, it’s hard to deal with everything at once, and it’s..i think it would be good if you, could, you know, have some of the tools to help you calm down and to relax and to realize um, you know, like the thoughts that we talk about, where you know, you got, if your boyfriend… automatic thoughts that aren’t true…
then you know, and think about the good things about it, and focus on that instead of the negatives…. but I have to get real quiet to hear them.
Automatic thoughts?
Right
Because you’re a survivor do you deal with stress differently ….? Tell me how it’s different. I know you mentioned hypervigilant, more aware around you.
Um, I think I do know how to deal with stress differently because I’ve been in set stressful situations that I mean, it, it was just in extreme pressure on your end so you had deal, you either had to learn to deal with or you, to go crazy or to fall off the deep end or I mean, you had to learn to deal with it. And so you had to develop mechanisms which aren’t always right, but you had to develop ways to make it through that extreme pressure.
Where you see yourself in the future when it comes to stress management?
I think I’m going to use this class a lot. Because I’m going to go to med school, so I plan on using the breathing and especially the guided imagery, you know, because university is going to be so hectic I’m never going to be able to get away, so I’m going to have to, you know, just go away in my mind. Calm down. You are different than you would be if you hadn’t been abused.
Changed?
I think I’m a lot stronger person. I’m a lot stronger person in that aspect, because of all that. Um. I’m not very trusting. That’s one of the bad kind of effects from it. I don’t trust people. I don’t rely on people, I don’t confide in people. I’m very singular, which can be a good thing being independent, but sometimes I go way too far.
What’s different now than it before you started the classes?
Um, I don’t feel like stress controls me anymore. It doesn’t, it doesn’t distinguish how I’m going to react to something. I mean, I felt like stress was kind of completely surrounding me and it kind of led me down where I was going to go, how I was going to react to things, but it isn’t. I mean, it’s just like something in the back of my mind, ok, that’s a little stressful but you know, it’s going to be ok.
I finally have something to DO, rather than just flow through the stress. I have these tools, these things that I can take with me on my healing.
Investigator’s notes:
Investigator Sandy
So what did you expect?
I expected self help things that overwhelm me and that are not practical.. for me. Yeah, and I, what else did I?…this self help, (laughs) because I read so many books and trying to get information that I really, that’s what I thought. I didn’t really it expect it to be useful stuff, I thought it would be like, ideas and theories and stuff. And so when I got there it was practical information, you had whittled it down where it was useful. It wasn’t so elaborate and so wordy that, you know what I….I got some meat and I walked out of there with something that was useful. I like the idea of having a toolbox of tools to use, and like, it’s ok that I can choose to use what works at the time. I have lots of different things to try and some might work sometimes, and some might work all the time.
What would you tell others about the classes?
Yes, I would recommend them. Um, I would be…the whole thing I struggled with through the whole time was…because I’m always concerned about black women that are overworked and feel like they’re superwomen (laughs) that, is that, you won’t submit to do that if you don’t love yourself. See what I’m saying? And so that’s such a big piece because I’m struggling….y’know, I’m still dealing with loving myself, and I’ve come a long way, but I’m still struggling with setting the time, making the time, doing these things to take care of myself, for myself. And so that barrier of not, you know, that…so if you get someone that’s (unintelligible) it’s gonna become information like the self help books, you know what I’m saying? And I think part of why it was neat to me is because I have come to a place in my life where I’m important. I want to make the changes. So it’s about being ready to be there. That’s what it is, I guess.
Ready?
And I felt like…I’m ready and I’ve got the challenges, I got the tools and the challenges to make, you know, to use the tools for myself. This is part of it. I needed to be aware of the stressors. I knew they were there, I ignored them until they roared too loud. But it’s because I am just learning that I need to take care of myself. Before, that I was last on the list, when everything else was fixed. (pause)
What was new for you?
All of the imagery. That was new for me. Yeah, I liked it. Even the music…that whole relaxation thing (laughs) that whole thing was new. Yes, that was new, like I like heard about. I had heard some about it, but not…and oh, the stress. You know, all the concrete ways that you gave us, the tools you gave us to de-stress. And to pay attention to the stress. I liked the mindfulness ideas. I want to read more on that.
Talk about progressive muscle relaxation
Yeah, like that, that was something I can do, I can take home and just do…I showed my husband. It wasn’t hard, just took a few minutes.
You taught it to your husband?
Yeah, and a girl at work. Progressive relaxation isn’t hard, and it makes sense, and you can really feel the differences between tense and relaxed. That helps, even I can teach this too. Yeah, yeah. And especially that one. That one is one you can teach easily. I did real well teaching it too. Yeah, yeah, I’d want to teach it.. do that. Yeah. I have to try it with kids. It’s amazing how when they’re really upset about something to say to them they have a tool. This is a chance for you to … to like get control again. Yeah, yeah, so I’m just, yeah, it was very difficult for me but that’s what I really liked, and I can see that it was…I liked…oh, that’s what I forgot to tell you, because, that first one, I realized how stressed I was.
The first class?
Yeah, that first class. I realized how stressed I was and how that takes away from who I am and by the end of the class… I like myself better these days. It helps to have me recognize what all these stressors are. Man I was through the roof on that question. (Referring to the Holmes & Rahe scale). A lot of what stresses me are things that aren’t even my issues. It’s like I looked for more stress just to keep me packed in. A lot of what stresses me, I really can get out of my life. It’s like I am seeing all these stressful or potentially stressful things and getting more stressed….. it’s that protective thing that I’ve always had to live with. I’m always sizing people up. Sometimes I can’t hear everything because my head is figuring out the person, you know, looking at the body language, ah, do they really mean what they say?, they said that earlier, oh, she’s one of those kind of ….
So you are sizing up people…?
Yeah (laughs) oh she just thought, ok she thought something about you…I mean, it’s this whole conversation going on constantly… measuring what her reaction is, figuring out if he meant something else.
So you’re constantly measuring what’s going on?
Yeah, comparing and trying to see where’s my place. Trying to see if people are seeing me, the parts I don’t want them to see. I am probably more aware than most others if someone came in beside me or was walking by me, I would be more aware of it than most others. Watching everyone else and getting stressed about it. This is who I am now, part of the whole issue here.
This is something related to your childhood sexual abuse?
Yes, that’s very true. This is all about being abused. I live my whole life, around that. Stress is part of that. But always looking, always busy, always aware of things that might be hurtful.
Ok
Yeah, it’s like I don’t have to look. I dunno. I’m just aware of what’s all around me without having to look. I can feel it like on the sides of me, or I just know, it’s… it’s just there.
And what…are you just watching in with emotions? Or are you just being aware?
I’m being aware. Now if something I sense harshness or something, then I would get to go to fear, but, cuz I can even tell if it’s hard, I mean I can even tell if it’s a nice person coming through or if it’s a hurried person coming through. I can just tell. Just by looking.
Like with body language or vibes coming off of them?
Yeah, right, yeah, body language I read real real well. Better than anyone I know. The words were never truer, so we can figure out real quick that at least there was some truth in the body language. I just know. At it may be more than body language… I don’t have to look, I can sense it… then if I sense something I will look closer, then this whole dialogue starts. Always looking.
So you can pick up on people well?
Yeah, like really, really, what are they saying. And I do that all the time.
How are these classes for adult survivors, specifically
Um, well, for one thing, it’s because we are stressed. Most of us have posttraumatic stress syndrome, right? And and, but that we live with such stress. And that we don’t even, if we get in there and become aware of how much stress we live in, because I think it’s a way of life. And you know it was an awareness for me to realize how stressed I really am. You know, because I’m better than I’ve ever been in my life, so I don’t know how I’ve made it. (laughs) I mean I really don’t because I am really truly better than I’ve ever been in my life, yet in that class, that first class….wow! I was still so stressed! And so for survivors to identify that stress and to have tools to do something about it. That I just think that’s real big. Because it makes you not feel so crazy because most of the time we feel crazy. And that’ll be one less thing off of us, to say “no, there are tools, this is real. Everybody has it. You just have a lot of it.
How do survivors deal with stress differently? … different than those who weren’t abused.
Ignoring it. A great deal of denial. Because you have to say in order to get through the days you have to say “oh, it’s not that bad.” You have to minimize it to be able to focus and live. And so that’s why you can have probably some things going on in your body and I think this is more so with African American women is that we can’t talk about and whenever we talk about it nobody says it’s ok so it’s stuffed inside of us and I think we’re extremely stressed out.
And I think it’s their (unintelligible) too, because they’re not always.
What is different now, after the classes are over?
The fact that I’m aware of my stress. I think I’m using the tools and um, I’m slowing down, and that’s ok. You know, I mean it’s really ok. I will not do as much as everyone else and that is OK. And even though…I was really stressed out when I was there, I really was.
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