PMID- 34085192
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20221108
LR  - 20231206
IS  - 1936-3567 (Electronic)
IS  - 1932-4502 (Linking)
VI  - 56
IP  - 4
DP  - 2022 Dec
TI  - Social Normativity of Research Methods and the Methodological Discrepancy between 
      Mainstream Psychological Research and Danish Psychology Students' Master's Thesis 
      Projects.
PG  - 863-878
LID - 10.1007/s12124-021-09612-0 [doi]
AB  - In this paper, we take a closer look at Danish psychology students' Master's 
      thesis projects. We do this by analysing 4,100 descriptions of all Master's 
      theses in Danish psychology study programs between 2014 and 2019. Via a sentiment 
      analysis of the data material, we identify and categorize the different theses 
      and attempt to identify their methodological focus. Initially, we describe the 
      characteristics of the Danish Master's thesis and discuss why an analysis of 
      different theoretical and methodological orientations within the theses is 
      relevant. The results we draw out in this article point to what we term a 
      methodological discrepancy between psychological research published in journals 
      and Danish psychology students' Master's thesis projects. The sentiment analysis 
      also shows that Danish Master's theses in many cases refer to one or more 
      specific (meta)theoretical orientations in their problem statements. The paper 
      discusses whether students' (meta)theoretical orientation(s) can be interpreted 
      as a sign of sound theoretical literacy among students or, conversely, if theory 
      rather is applied in a routine-like manner in Master's thesis projects. It is 
      further discussed whether the methodological discrepancy is seen because of the 
      more intuitive nature of qualitative methods, or if it caused by what could be 
      termed a dustbowl (qualitative) empiricism. The article is concluded with a 
      discussion on the social normativity of psychological research.
CI  - (c) 2021. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business 
      Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
FAU - Szulevicz, Thomas
AU  - Szulevicz T
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-6830-4583
AD  - Department of Communication and Psychology, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark. 
      thoszu@hum.aau.dk.
FAU - Lund, Peter Clement
AU  - Lund PC
AD  - Department of Communication and Psychology, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark.
FAU - Lund, Rolf Lyneborg
AU  - Lund RL
AD  - Department of Sociology and Social Work, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20210604
PL  - United States
TA  - Integr Psychol Behav Sci
JT  - Integrative psychological & behavioral science
JID - 101319534
SB  - IM
CIN - Integr Psychol Behav Sci. 2022 Dec;56(4):902-909. PMID: 35680720
CIN - Integr Psychol Behav Sci. 2022 Dec;56(4):893-901. PMID: 35779222
CIN - Integr Psychol Behav Sci. 2022 Dec;56(4):879-883. PMID: 35931940
CIN - Integr Psychol Behav Sci. 2022 Dec;56(4):884-892. PMID: 36284070
CIN - Integr Psychol Behav Sci. 2023 Sep;57(3):1050-1064. PMID: 36567413
MH  - Humans
MH  - *Students
MH  - *Research Design
MH  - Denmark
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Dissertation
OT  - Methodology
OT  - Normativity
OT  - Research methods
OT  - Theoretical Orientation
EDAT- 2021/06/05 06:00
MHDA- 2022/11/09 06:00
CRDT- 2021/06/04 07:18
PHST- 2021/03/22 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2021/06/05 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2022/11/09 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2021/06/04 07:18 [entrez]
AID - 10.1007/s12124-021-09612-0 [pii]
AID - 10.1007/s12124-021-09612-0 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Integr Psychol Behav Sci. 2022 Dec;56(4):863-878. doi: 
      10.1007/s12124-021-09612-0. Epub 2021 Jun 4.