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Using NVivo to assess a program of goal-corrected empathic attunement skills: a case study in the context of higher education

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This paper focuses on the use of NVivo10 in the process of assessing a developmental program in goal-corrected emphatic attunement skills in the context of a psychology master’s program course. The authors present the way the software supported this work and discuss how it enabled a process of moving closer to and distancing themselves from the data. The possibility to analyse data in different perspectives—cross-sectional and longitudinal—is also discussed, using qualitative research and analysing different groups of participants (cases) and different years of the program as the project research questions evolved.

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Notes

  1. An NVivo’s file is called project.

  2. Not to be confused with grounded theory.

  3. Specifically, year two of analysis (2011–2012) only had two interviews and debriefings. Hence, M7 (3rd interview) and M8 (3rd debriefing) were absent at this year.

  4. See Fig. 1 to identify the moments of the program at year one of analysis.

  5. Tables on this paper do not always present the entire program’s moments; selection was made according to the questions asked.

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The authors would like to thank Professor Ana Isabel Pinto and Professor Catarina Grande for sharing the data used in this study. José Miguez was mainly responsible for the analysis of the research results at this paper and its integration within the theory.

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    Catarina Brandão & José Miguez

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Brandão, C., Miguez, J. Using NVivo to assess a program of goal-corrected empathic attunement skills: a case study in the context of higher education. Univ Access Inf Soc 16, 863–876 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10209-016-0476-x

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