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This chapter has a two-pronged aim: First, to demonstrate how the Mmogo-method is combined with the Intergenerational Group Reflecting Technique (IGRT) (Roos V, J Intergen Relat 9(1):90–98. doi:10.1080/15350770.2011.544217, 2011); and second, to demonstrate how textual data obtained from generational Setswana-speaking members were analyzed. The Mmogo-method was combined with IGRT to obtain data about the interactional nature of relationships between older persons and young adults. In the IGRT, two groups of participants are involved – while one group shares its perspectives the other group members listen and reflect on what they have heard. Young adult males (N = 10, aged 20–25) were requested to make visual representations of their relational experiences with older people who are socially related to them, while the older persons (N = 6; 1 male and 5 females, aged 60–78) were asked to listen to the young adult males’ explanations and to reflect on what they had heard. The descriptive phenomenological psychological method was used to analyze the textual data. The findings from this chapter will be used to develop theory that will be discussed in Chap. 8.
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Roos, V. (2016). The Mmogo-method and the Intergenerational Group Reflecting Technique to Explore Intergenerational Interactions and Textual Data Analysis. In: Roos, V. (eds) Understanding Relational and Group Experiences through the Mmogo-Method®. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31224-8_6
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