BACKGROUND The researcher role is highly debated in qualitative research. This article concerns the researcher-researched relationship. METHODS A group of health science researchers anchored in various qualitative research traditions gathered in reflective group discussions over a period of two years. RESULTS Efforts to establish an anti-authoritarian relationship between researcher and res...

The over-consumption of alcohol by college-aged adults continues to be a societal problem. This study analyzed the effect of Public Service Announcements (PSAs) designed to counteract alcohol advertisements on the behavior of college-aged consumers of alcohol. The researcher conducted a review of the literature as a means of discussing the issue. The aim of this research was to find the most ef...

“You see doctor, when I found out you had Marfan syndrome and I saw that you were pregnant, I felt so jealous I could not stand it. Then I realized, if you did it, maybe I could, too.” My mind raced with ways to respond. I did not answer as quickly as usual. She took my pause as an opportunity to continue... “You know, I love my foster babies. I feel so blessed. It’s just hard to wake up every ...

This paper discusses what it means to be a good qualitative researcher. The aim is to deliberately blur the distinction between epistemic and ethical goodness by arguing that there is a close connection between being a good qualitative researcher in the epistemic and the ethical senses. First, the relation between researcher and researched is articulated as a power relation giving rise to certa...

In new-paradigm research, empathic witnessing by the researcher might create within the researcher-participant relationship a space for participants to share and transcend their suffering. I explore this theme through the constructionist grounded theory analysis of interviews, fieldnotes, and my self-reflexive commentary from an original study conducted to understand the experiences of sufferin...

Quantitative Analysis Kyle Gorman and Daniel Ezra Johnson A sociolinguist who has gathered so much data that it has become difficult to make sense of the raw observations can turn to graphical presentation, and to descriptive statistics, techniques for distilling a collection of data into a few key numerical values, allowing the researcher to focus on specific, meaningful properties of the data...