This study by Challenor Watts (2013) used a psychosocial methodological framework to qualitatively investigate the social and psychological factors behind why altruistic kidney donors donate. Furthermore to allow the findings to not be affected by post-donation thoughts and experience the study focussed on pre-donation. Discourse analysis was used to examine how language is used by altruistic kidney donors to think and speak. Nonetheless the positioning theory argues that some participants may choose to …show more content…
The first question asked was, “I am interested in your decision to become an altruistic kidney donor, please tell me about it”. The question is quite open and not structured thus the participants are free to inform the experimenter however he feels comfortable explaining it; the interview was quite detailed as follow up questions were asked such as what their family thought about them donating. Three out of six interviews were chosen to be psychoanalytically read and interpreted as it presented reasons explaining the “emotional investment” the participants