Table 2. The five steps for the analysis according to empirical phenomenological psychology (EPP) by G. Karlsson (11).
Analysis steps | Content |
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1. Good grasp | Perusal of all the transcribed interviews to understand the whole |
2. Meaning units | Classification of the interview text in meaningful units where a shift in meaning was identified in accordance to the purpose of the study |
3. Eidetic induction | Eidetic interpretation was done from the participants everyday language to find the characteristics of the phenomena in the narratives by the participants |
4. Situated contexture | Summary of the meaning units into a whole in order to describe how the phenomenon is lived and what the phenomenon is |
5. Finally: result in general characteristics and typology | First, a specific description for each interview to compare thereafter the detailed interview subtitles with each other to achieve a general or a typical description of the phenomenon |