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Achieving trustworthiness in qualitative research: a pan-paradigmatic perspective
Elizabeth Nutt Williams1, Susan L Morrow
1Department of Psychology, St. Mary's College of Maryland, St. Mary's City, Maryland 20686, USA. enwilliams@smcm.edu
Abstract:
In this article, as two researchers from different traditions in qualitative research (consensual qualitative research and grounded theory), the authors present their shared views on the critical elements of trustworthiness in qualitative data. In addition to making specific recommendations about the integrity of data, the balance between participant meaning and researcher interpretation, and clear communication and application of the findings, they identify ways in which these issues are difficult to negotiate within and across different qualitative approaches. The authors present examples from various qualitative studies, emphasize the need for a shared language to reduce confusion between qualitative traditions and with researchers from a more strictly quantitative orientation, and recommend particular approaches to establishing trustworthiness in qualitative research.
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