TY - JOUR

T1 - Doing descriptive phenomenological data collection in sport psychology research

AU - O'Halloran, L

AU - Littlewood, MA

AU - Richardson, DJ

AU - Tod, D

AU - Nesti, MS

N1 - This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor Francis in Sport in Society on 29 March 2016, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2016.1159199

PY - 2018

Y1 - 2018

N2 - Researchers in the field of sport psychology have begun to highlight the potential of phenomenological ap-proaches in recognising subjective experience and the essential structure of experience. Despite this, phenom-enology has been used inconsistently in the sport psychology literature thus far. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to provide theoretically informed practical guidelines for researchers who wish to employ the descrip-tive phenomenological interview in their studies. The recommended guidelines will be supported by under-pinning theory and brief personal accounts. An argument will also be presented for the potential that descrip-tive phenomenology holds in creating new knowledge through rich description. In doing so, it is hoped that this method will be utilised appropriately in future sport psychology research to not only strengthen and diver-sify the existing literature, but also the knowledge of practitioners working within the applied world of profes-sional sport.

AB - Researchers in the field of sport psychology have begun to highlight the potential of phenomenological ap-proaches in recognising subjective experience and the essential structure of experience. Despite this, phenom-enology has been used inconsistently in the sport psychology literature thus far. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to provide theoretically informed practical guidelines for researchers who wish to employ the descrip-tive phenomenological interview in their studies. The recommended guidelines will be supported by under-pinning theory and brief personal accounts. An argument will also be presented for the potential that descrip-tive phenomenology holds in creating new knowledge through rich description. In doing so, it is hoped that this method will be utilised appropriately in future sport psychology research to not only strengthen and diver-sify the existing literature, but also the knowledge of practitioners working within the applied world of profes-sional sport.

KW - 1106 Human Movement And Sports Science

KW - 1504 Commercial Services

KW - 1608 Sociology

U2 - 10.1080/17430437.2016.1159199

DO - 10.1080/17430437.2016.1159199

M3 - Article

SP - 302

EP - 313

JO - Sport in Society

JF - Sport in Society

ER -