Qualitative psychosocial research aims to understand how people think, feel, and behave in natural settings. It focuses on understanding unique characteristics of individuals and groups and the meanings they attribute to life experiences. This is done through approaches like nomothetic, idiographic, and hermeneutic methods. The research process involves planning studies, collecting data through methods like interviews and observations, analyzing documents and qualitative data, and generating explanations rather than generalizing to populations. The goal is in-depth understanding rather than description.