two week progress report

in five minutes, what have I done in the last two weeks?

• finished the thematic coding
• got it off to the primary peer reviewer
• got it back (ok, that is not me, but something done for the project).
• looked lexically at the words they used in their discussion.
• created categories of words
• listed "universal" emotions and recognizable intensity variants
• listed other emotion catagories
• as well as the frequencies
• BUT I did not cross list for different focus groups . . .
• fortunately TAMS will let me do that fairly well.
• here is that summary:
• basic
  fear disgust sadness surprise anger happiness
  
  
• other
  gen. arousal (anticipation) gen. agony (pain) shyness "weighingoptions" (noonchi) gen. "nice" character gen. "bad" character - arrogance flattery archetypes interest guilt (shame/embarrassment) anxiety relief (post-anxiety) showing no emotion (calm) true v. false conflicted (mixed/confused)




• coded all of the "behavioral" cues
• compared the frequency of the different code for different nationalities and for individual focus groups

that's a good amount of data analysis!

soooo . . . . . I am getting closer. here are the things I would like to do this week:

• complete a second thematic coding of the data.
• did a partial review . . .
• read Yoonhwa’s notes
• discuss with her today
• decide if I need to go back and do all four focus groups again

• write my advisor.
• contact the program and register for courses.
• [tertiary coding?] look at how the participants coded the basic emotions and of their intensity.
• outline chapter 4
• member checks?
• revise the methodology section regarding data collection and data analysis.
• look at the edits for the first three chapters.
  

a few things left to do today. some more for tomorrow.