Category Definition Age differences Differences in the approach and impact of rapport building on communication that are based on the age of the children. Comfortable The rapport phase makes the child feel at ease, or more at ease, which reduces their anxiety and facilitates communication. Individual basis The approach to rapport is interviewer’s based on the individual presentation. child’s The presentation also gives the child’s interviewer valuable information about how to conduct the remainder of the interview in terms of communication. Axial coding The categories generated up until this point were then further refined and reduced. This was achieved by analysing the excerpts from each category in detail and discovering redundancies, links and relationships between categories. As this point a ‘coding paradigm’ was adopted that centred on viewing the data from the perspective of the research aim, i.e. of Coding paradigms are used to ensure that the researcher ‘facilitation communication’. maintains focus relating to the research question, and begins to view the data in a more abstract and conceptual way (Payne, 2007). Consequently, rather than constantly describing
Category Definition Age differences Differences in the approach and impact of rapport building on communication that are based on the age of the children. Comfortable The rapport phase makes the child feel at ease, or more at ease, which reduces their anxiety and facilitates communication. Individual basis The interviewer’s approach to rapport is based on the child’s individual presentation. The child’s presentation also gives the interviewer valuable information about how to conduct the remainder of the interview in terms of communication. Axial coding The categories generated up until this point were then further refined and reduced. This was achieved by analysing the excerpts from each category in detail and discovering redundancies, links and relationships between categories. As this point a ‘coding paradigm’ was adopted that centred on viewing the data from the perspective of the research aim, i.e. ‘facilitation of communication’. Coding paradigms are used to ensure that the researcher maintains focus relating to the research question, and begins to view the data in a more abstract and conceptual way (Payne, 2007). Consequently, rather than constantly describing