How Does Grounded Theory Explain?

Miller, Steven I.; Fredericks, Marcel

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“…The result of the present study is viewed as a substantive empirically grounded theory. The grounded theory method gives a description of the systematic and logical procedure of how theories are developed (context of discovery) rather than verification of pre-existing theories (context of verification) (Miller & Fredricks, 1999). Focus groups and grounded theory both focus on social processes and social interactions for the experience of phenomena and related coping.…”

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“Making it work in the frontline” explains female home care workers’ defining, recognizing, communicating and reporting of occupational disorders

Dellve

Hallberg

2008

International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well

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Epidemiological research has so far failed to explain the high incidence of occupational disorders among home care workers (HCWs) and the great differences in organizational incidence rate. A qualitative approach may contribute to a deeper understanding of work group reasoning and handling in a more contextual manner. The aim of this grounded theory study was to gain a deeper understanding of the main concern in the processes of recognizing, communicating and reporting occupational disorders among HCWs. Focus group interviews were conducted with 40 HCWs in 9 focus groups. The selected municipalities represented variations in municipality type and incidence rate of occupational disorders. Making it work in the frontline was identified as the core category explaining that the perceived work situation in home care work was the main concern but interacted with work-group socialising processes as well as with the communicability and derivability of the occupational disorder when defining and reporting occupational disorders. Complex problems could be reformulated and agreed within the workgroup to increase communicability. Described significances for reporting/non-reporting were related to financial compensation, to a part of organizational political game or to an existential uncertainty, i.e. questioning if it belonged to their chosen work and life. Our conclusion is that working situation and work group attitudes have importance for reporting of occupational disorders. To support work-related health for HCWs, integrating communication should be developed about work-related challenges in work situation, as well as about attitudes, culture and efficiency within work-group.

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“…The result is a theoretical model (a substantive theory) of individuals' perspectives in a bounded context. It belongs to the ''context of discovery'' in theory development, which is different from ''the context of verification'' (Miller & Fredricks, 1999).…”

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“Making it work in the frontline” explains female home care workers’ defining, recognizing, communicating and reporting of occupational disorders

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Hallberg

2008

International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well

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“…Although there are examples of programmes of grounded theory studies building on previous studies (Olshansky, 1996), Miller and Fredericks (1999) identify an apparent reluctance among researchers undertaking grounded theory studies to move beyond an accomodationist position to one that makes and tests predictions. This can be understood in the context of the apparent, if rarely explicit constructivist approach of many published studies (Pidgeon and Henwood, 1997).…”

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Differentiating normal and problem gambling: a grounded theory approach

Ricketts

Macaskill

2004

Addiction Research & Theory

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A previous study Ricketts & Macaskill (2003) delineated a theory of problem gambling based on the experiences of treatment seeking male gamblers and allowed predictions to be made regarding the processes that differentiate between normal and problem gamblers. These predictions are the focus of the present study, which also utilised a grounded theory approach, but with a sample of male high frequency normal gamblers.The findings suggest that there are common aspects of gambling associated with arousal and a sense of achievement. The use of gambling to manage negative emotional states differentiated normal and problem gambling. Perceived self-efficacy , emotion management skills and perceived likelihood of winning money back were intervening variables differentiating problem and normal gamblers.3

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“…The differences were made public in GLASER 1992 (see also GLASER, 2002). The differences have been the object of heated debates (KELLE, 1994;KENDALL, 1999;MILLER & FREDERICKS, 1999;STRÜBING, 2004) in the scientific literature since then. [2] This later position found in both STRAUSS and STRAUSS and CORBIN takes into account that observation and the development of theory are necessarily always already theory guided.…”

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Abduction: The Logic of Discovery of Grounded Theory

Reichertz

2007

The SAGE Handbook of Grounded Theory

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This essay is a contribution to the question whether grounded theory methodology (in the variant of STRAUSS & CORBIN) contains an abductive research logic as developed in the work of Charles Sanders PEIRCE. After going through the works of STRAUSS and CORBIN I answer the question with a resounding yes. But it does not only contain the logic of abductive reasoning but also that of qualitative induction. "We decided to write a book about methods in the mid-1960s. We felt that changes were in the air and wanted to write for the new generation-the people over 30 were already too bound by convention. Barney was more positive about the project. I was more skeptical because I was older. The title indicates what was important to us The Discovery of Grounded Theory (1967): unlike the usual method books which are concerned with verification, we were more interested in the discovery of theory 'out of the data'. Grounded Theory is not a theory but a methodology to discover theories dormant in the data" (LEGEWIE & SCHERVIER-LEGEWIE, 2004

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How Does Grounded Theory Explain?

Cited by 61 publications

References 16 publications

“Making it work in the frontline” explains female home care workers’ defining, recognizing, communicating and reporting of occupational disorders

“Making it work in the frontline” explains female home care workers’ defining, recognizing, communicating and reporting of occupational disorders

Differentiating normal and problem gambling: a grounded theory approach

Abduction: The Logic of Discovery of Grounded Theory

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