PS398 Lecture 5: CQR and Grounded Theory
Process of locating particular qualitative approach within a specific research paradigm:
Consensual qualitative research:
-recent qualitative explication developed by counseling psychologists studying psychotherapy
processes and looking to integrate descriptive depth and richness of constructivist qualitative
methods with the postpositivist reliance on interpretive consensus (agreement)
-relies heavily on grounded theory (sociology base), phenomenology (psychological base), and
comprehensive process analysis (psychotherapy base)
Ontology:
-relies on research team member and external auditor consensus in arriving at domains and core
ideas
-thus there is only one true approximal reality
-ontology is postpositivist
Epistemology:
-medium-length interviews, semistructured, attempt to maintain consistency across participants,
do not lead to intense researcher-participant interaction or extensive discovery
-epistemology is between postpositivism and constructivism
Axiology:
-acknowledges and brackets expectations and biases
Document Summary
Process of locating particular qualitative approach within a specific research paradigm: Recent qualitative explication developed by counseling psychologists studying psychotherapy processes and looking to integrate descriptive depth and richness of constructivist qualitative methods with the postpositivist reliance on interpretive consensus (agreement) Relies heavily on grounded theory (sociology base), phenomenology (psychological base), and comprehensive process analysis (psychotherapy base) Relies on research team member and external auditor consensus in arriving at domains and core ideas. Thus there is only one true approximal reality. Medium-length interviews, semistructured, attempt to maintain consistency across participants, do not lead to intense researcher-participant interaction or extensive discovery. Summarizes domains and categories in tabular form, assigns frequency labels on basis of counts across interviews, brief sample quotes. Leads to verification and explanation of literature-based themes inherent in protocol questions. Interview protocol does not change from interview to interview as in constructivist paradigms and theoretical sampling methods. Methods of cqr fall between constructivism and postpositivism.
