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The research methodology includes the research design and in-depth qualitative research approach. Research design, research strategy, approach and setting are introduced. Quality criteria for the study are established. Ethical considerations are discussed and methodological limitations are presented. Further on, Chap. 6 finally includes the description of the data collection process, the data analysis, data reporting and evaluation of data.

Creativity requires the courageto let go of certainties.

Erich Fromm, 1956

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Notes

  1. 1.

    According to Kováry (2011), Dilthey influenced Allport strongly to become the pioneer of idiographic approaches in personality psychology and Murray became a scholar emphasising the idiographic, in-depth approaches at Harvard, focusing in research on a single individual from a longitudinal perspective.

  2. 2.

    Itinerary analysis is understood as an anylsis which refers to the context of time, place and meaning (Puig & Morell, 1996) in an itinerative, but not always in a chronological way (Sects. 6.8, 6.9, and 6.10).

  3. 3.

    The choice of psychological theories applied in this research is presented in Sect. 1.4 and is addressed in Sect. 6.8.3 as a sub-chapter of Sect. 6.8 on data collection. The choice of theoretical application is presented in this methodological section to give the reader an idea about the possible author bias with regard to the choice of theories in terms of data collection, analysis and interpretation and is therefore viewed as part of the methodological discussion of data collection.

  4. 4.

    The process of content analysis represents a methodological way to analyse the data in accordance with the research process of Elms (2007), described in Sect. 6.7. As referred to in the model of content analysis in Sects. 6.9 and 6.10, the research process of Elms and the steps of content analysis have been combined, as described in the chapters, by defining the subject of research, defining and redefining assumptions, applying an itinerary analysis etc.

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