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Qualitative research in practice
Yvonne:
happens to their support and if their support from
their work organisations breaks down, which was
happening at that time, then what happens? Things
like that. So in the beginning it was the demographic
considerations but gradually it was more the theoretical
considerations that guided me.
Do you feel confident that at the end of the day you
obtained a thorough mix of types of situation?
Angelina: Well, I don’t think it can be perfect, but as far as my
particular piece of research is concerned, after interviewing
the 27 women I thought that the questions
that I had at the particular time were answered—but of
course there were many other questions that I would
like to follow-up. But you can never follow-up all the
questions and you have to set a boundary. So after
doing the 27 interviews I felt that I had to make a stop
to it, otherwise it would go on forever.
Yvonne Darlington—The experience of childhood sexual
abuse
Yvonne:
I talked earlier (Chapter 1) about how I became interested
in this research topic and my choice of a
qualitative methodology. In this chapter, I’ll comment
on two aspects of the interviews: my interviewing
style and the women’s reports of their experience of
the in-depth interview, as reported during the followup
interview. Ten women participated in the study.
I had three meetings with each of them: the initial
contact in which we negotiated their participation in
the study, the in-depth interview and the follow-up
interview. The in-depth and follow-up interviews were
both taped and transcribed.
Interviewing style
The in-depth interviews were relatively unstructured. I had a
short list of topics to cover but imposed no constraints on the
women in terms of the order in which topics were covered or how
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