Thinking through and designing qualitative research studies: a focused mapping review of 30 years of qualitative research in sport psychology

Figures & data

Figure 1. Overview of the article screening and selection.

Figure 2. Number of qualitative studies across all five journals from 1987 to July 2017.

Figure 3. Number of qualitative studies across all five journals by philosophical position from 1987 to July 2017.

Figure 4. Number of qualitative articles in JSEP by year and philosophical position.

Figure 5. Number of qualitative articles in QRSEH by year and paradigm. Note the journal began publishing issues in 2009.

Figure 6. Number of qualitative articles in JASP by year and philosophical position.

Figure 7. Number of qualitative articles in TSP by year and philosophical position.

Figure 8. Number of qualitative articles in PSE by year and philosophical position.

Table 1. Number of articles per journal across philosophical position, philosophical position acknowledgement, and methodological coherence.

		Philosophical position					Acknowledgement of philosophical position		Coherence
Journals	Total	Postpositivism	Constructivism	Constructionism	Post-Modern+	Pragmatism	Assumed	Stated	Yes	No
QRSEH	202	52	78	23	46	3	124	78	194	8
JSEP	34	18	13	1	0	2	24	10	31	3
JASP	129	103	21	0	2	3	110	19	124	4
TSP	201	127	64	1	6	3	162	39	193	8
PSE	144	55	65	16	3	5	81	63	139	5
Total	710	355	241	41	57	16	501	209	681	28

Note: QRSEH = Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise, and Health; JSEP = Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology; JASP = Journal of Applied Sport Psychology; TSP = The Sport Psychologist; PSE = Psychology of Sport & Exercise.