Studying motherchild conversations at home in three cultures : western Turkey, eastern Turkey, and the United States /
Research on the development of autobiographical memory has documented the important role of motherchild conversations about past events in shaping children's memory development. To observe motherchild reminiscing in the natural environment, researchers often conduct home visits. This research m...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
SAGE Publications Ltd,
2018.
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| Series: | SAGE Research Methods. Cases.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Research on the development of autobiographical memory has documented the important role of motherchild conversations about past events in shaping children's memory development. To observe motherchild reminiscing in the natural environment, researchers often conduct home visits. This research methods case focuses on a study in which we visited the homes of mothers and their young children in three diverse cultural settings and recorded their conversations about shared past and anticipated future events. We describe how participants were recruited, how the home visit protocol was conducted to capture the most naturalistic data possible, and the challenges of adjusting to diverse cultural norms when visiting participants at home. We reflect on the dilemmas we faced during recruitment and data collection, how we overcame them, and broader lessons for researchers recruiting participants and conducting home visits in multiple cultures. We also discuss coding, including how best to code naturalistic motherchild speech collected in two languages to facilitate comparison. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781526449603 1526449609 |