Syllabus Edition
First teaching 2025
First exams 2027
Exam code: 7182
Patients with depression were asked to keep a daily diary of their experiences as part of their therapy. Two researchers analysed the same extracts from the diaries using content analysis.
What is content analysis?
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Explain one way in which the researchers could have used content analysis to analyse diary extracts in this investigation.
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A psychologist was interested in finding out whether dream themes differed between males and females, particularly in terms of social interaction. She decided to conduct a pilot study. Twenty undergraduate students (8 male and 12 female) volunteered for the study.
For a six-week period the students were interviewed at 9 am each morning when they arrived at university. Interviewers, who did not know the purpose of the study, carried out and recorded the dream interviews.
Another researcher, who did not know the purpose of the study, carried out a content analysis of the interview data.
Explain how this content analysis could have been conducted.
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The psychologist wanted to assess the reliability of the content analysis.
Explain how the reliability of the content analysis could be assessed.
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