Q Methodology

Q Method books

Brown, S.R. (1980). Political subjectivity: Applications of Q methodology in political science. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Watts, S., & Stenner, P. (2012). Doing q methodological research: Theory, method and interpretation. SAGE Publications Ltd, https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781446251911

McKeown, B.F. & D.B. Thomas (1988). Q methodology (Quantitative Applications in the So-
cial Sciences series, Vol. 66). Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.


Q Method in Counseling


Baltrinic, E. R., Moate, R. M., Hinkle, M. G., Jencius, M., & Taylor, J. Z. (2018). Counselor Educators’ Teaching Mentorship Styles: A Q Methodology Study. The Professional Counselor, 8(1), 46–59. https://doi.org/10.15241/erb.8.1.46

Baltrinic, E. R., & Suddeath, E. G. (2020). A Q Methodology Study of a Doctoral Counselor Education Teaching Instruction Course. The Professional Counselor, 10(4), 472–487. https://doi.org/10.15241/erb.10.4.472

Burton, S. V., Valenta, A. L., Starren, J., Abraham, J., Nelson, T., Kochendorfer, K., Hughes, A., Harris, B., &

Boyd, A. (2022). Examining perspectives on the adoption and use of computer-based patient-reported outcomes among clinicians and health professionals: A Q methodology study. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 29(3), 443–452. https://doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocab257

Dudley, R., Siitarinen, J., James, I., & Dodgson, G. (2009). What Do People with Psychosis Think Caused their Psychosis? A Q Methodology Study. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 37(01), 11. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1352465808004955

Janson, C.A. (2007). High school counselors’ perceptions of their educational leadership beha-
viors: A Q methodology study. https://www.proquest.com/docview/304834967/5364A9BFCB340D9PQ/1?accountid=11835

Kindsvatter, A. (2006). Factors associated with counseling client perceptions of contributions to
pre-treatment change. https://www.proquest.com/docview/305315373/756E55E9E6554CC3PQ/1?accountid=11835

Morera, T., Bucci, S., Randal, C., Barrett, M., & Pratt, D. (2017). Exploring views about mindfulness groups for voice-hearing from the perspective of service users and staff: A Q-methodology study. Psychotherapy Research, 27(2), 179–188. https://doi.org/10.1080/10503307.2015.1085657

Quillin, A.B. (2004). Perceptions of the spiritual: An assessment of master's level student coun-
selors' views of spirituality. https://www.proquest.com/docview/305318009/BC920ED468E64B04PQ/1?accountid=11835

Shinebourne, P., & Adams, M. (2007). Therapists’ understandings and experiences of working with clients with problems of addiction: A pilot study using Q methodology. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 7(4), 211–219. https://doi.org/10.1080/14733140701726159

Stickl, J. E., Wester, K. L., & Wachter Morris, C. A. (2019). Making Sense of Subjectivity: Q Methodology in Counseling Research. Counseling Outcome Research and Evaluation, 10(2), 106–118. https://doi.org/10.1080/21501378.2017.1419425

Thornhill, K., Kellett, S., & Davies, J. (2012). Heterogeneity within compulsive buyers: A Q-sort study: Compulsive buying/Q-sort. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 85(2), 229–241. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2044-8341.2011.02027.x

Trepal, H.C. (2004). Adolescents’ perceptions of their pregnancy: A Q-methodological study. https://www.proquest.com/pagepdf/305318072?accountid=11835

Trepal, H. C., Wester, K. L., & Shuler, M. (2008). Counselors’-in-Training Perceptions of Gendered Behavior.
The Family Journal, 16(2), 147–154. https://doi.org/10.1177/1066480708314256

Wallis, J., Burns, J., & Capdevila, R. (2011). What is narrative therapy and what is it not? The usefulness of Q methodology to explore accounts of White and Epston’s (1990) approach to narrative therapy. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, 18(6), 486–497. https://doi.org/10.1002/cpp.723


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Baltrinic, E. R., Jencius, M., & Brown, S. R. (2017). Excellent Teaching as Viewed by International Teaching Elites. Operant Subjectivity, 38(3/4), 16–28. doi:10.15133/j.os.2016.009

Brown, S. R., Baltrinic, E., and Jencius, M. (2019). From Concourse to Q Sample to Testing Theory.
Operant Subjectivity: The International Journal of Q Methodology. 41, 1-17. DOI: 10.15133/j.os.2019.002


Websites

International Society for the Scientific Study of Subjectivity website
Links to Operant Subjectivity journal and lots of resources for starters.
QMethod.org

Our website for this presentation.
It also contains directions on how to use Padlet sorting software
QMethodology.info

Easy HTMLQ
Gethub files -
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PowerPoint on how to setup Easy HTML Q
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