I found the chapter on interpretative phenomenological analysis quite interesting. The description used by the author on the detailed examination of individual lived experienced resonated with me; it is in my opinion an extremely important aspect of research. Research should adequately reflect how individuals make sense of their experience. I couldn’t agree more with the author’s statement that obtaining good data from the participant and doing insightful analysis of the data is important for us as researchers however, we should not lose sight of the importance of how people make sense of their life/experiences. Interpretative phenomenological analysis reminds me a lot of mindfulness and focusing on the “here and now”. They both suggest in
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Going further, a group of people could be participating in the same activity and all have their own individual different experiences and embedded in that is a person social, historical and cultural influences. As researchers we should be aiming to investigate how things are being experienced and how they are given meaning to obtaining a clear picture of how some people moves through the world. This analysis approach also mirrors some of the key elements of yoga as they both are using analysis to understand perception and cognition as well as the rising and expansion of consciousness, as well as a person path to understanding the omniscience of oneself. Much of the research I read today appears one-sided, and neglectful of the study of human beings lived experience. Society likes quantitative data because of the numbers and statistical data that support it and while I think it is important, I think many other areas get taken for granted such as the value qualitative research brings at helping us understand experience and the relationships between the inner and external …show more content…
In Health psychology we learn that a person’s beliefs and expectations about their illness are central to Leventhal’s Self-Regulation Theory. As reiterated in this article a person’s self-regulation theory hypothesis that how a person views their illness, sickness, or disease is a representation of how they evaluate, assess and respond to their illness, sickness and or disease. There behaviors about their disease and medication adherence are based on what they believe or feel to be true. This theory is formulated based on the parallel processing framework that states that a person’s cognitive processing is based on their responses to an internal or external stimuli and the second is based on parallel processing based on emotions. Most of us have been conditioned on this emotional based processing. This occurs because we have not been taught healthy emotional regulation skills and instead we based our needs for survival on outside stimuli. That is why as a result the parallel processing of health behaviors are usually triggered for many individuals as a result of cognitive as well as emotional processes. Societal labels and cultural roles also dictate the way we cognitively/emotionally respond or do not respond to situations. In my experience it is pretty common that illness representations are significant determinants of health related quality of life. It is
Going further, a group of people could be participating in the same activity and all have their own individual different experiences and embedded in that is a person social, historical and cultural influences. As researchers we should be aiming to investigate how things are being experienced and how they are given meaning to obtaining a clear picture of how some people moves through the world. This analysis approach also mirrors some of the key elements of yoga as they both are using analysis to understand perception and cognition as well as the rising and expansion of consciousness, as well as a person path to understanding the omniscience of oneself. Much of the research I read today appears one-sided, and neglectful of the study of human beings lived experience. Society likes quantitative data because of the numbers and statistical data that support it and while I think it is important, I think many other areas get taken for granted such as the value qualitative research brings at helping us understand experience and the relationships between the inner and external …show more content…
In Health psychology we learn that a person’s beliefs and expectations about their illness are central to Leventhal’s Self-Regulation Theory. As reiterated in this article a person’s self-regulation theory hypothesis that how a person views their illness, sickness, or disease is a representation of how they evaluate, assess and respond to their illness, sickness and or disease. There behaviors about their disease and medication adherence are based on what they believe or feel to be true. This theory is formulated based on the parallel processing framework that states that a person’s cognitive processing is based on their responses to an internal or external stimuli and the second is based on parallel processing based on emotions. Most of us have been conditioned on this emotional based processing. This occurs because we have not been taught healthy emotional regulation skills and instead we based our needs for survival on outside stimuli. That is why as a result the parallel processing of health behaviors are usually triggered for many individuals as a result of cognitive as well as emotional processes. Societal labels and cultural roles also dictate the way we cognitively/emotionally respond or do not respond to situations. In my experience it is pretty common that illness representations are significant determinants of health related quality of life. It is