Reflections: On hard work

Rothman, Barbara Katz

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“…She recalled the helplessness and isolation of parents, which led parents to be frustrated and angry at the time of interview and stated that she experienced these emotions as well. This concurs with Rothman's (1986) findings of mirroring the emotions of participants.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 92%

“…Similar to previous researchers who have reported their own personal and emotional reactions while doing qualitative research, the research assistant experienced empathy, rapport and identification with participants (Rothman, 1986; Cowles, 1988; Wilde, 1992). In summary, the research assistant disclosed feeling emotionally drained and sad, being in shock and pain and finding it just too hard.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 84%

“…Qualitative researchers argue that the researcher's own experience, rather than being seen as a source of bias, is a source of data to be reflected on to enhance interpretation and understanding (Van Maanen, 1988). Qualitative research studies have described the researcher's personal and emotional responses (Rothman, 1986; Cowles, 1988; Drew, 1989; Dunn, 1991; Scott, 1996; Higgins, 1998; Sullivan, 1998; Sword, 1999; Yong, 2001). These responses and strategies for coping with them will be discussed.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Impact of in‐depth interviews on the interviewer: Roller coaster ride

Beale

Cole²,

Hillege

et al. 2004

Nursing & Health Sciences

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The authors investigated the experiences of parents with children/adult children in metropolitan Sydney, Australia who were living with, or had recovered from, an eating disorder. During regular team meetings, the research assistant who conducted the interviews had described her reactions which led the research team to investigate her experience in more depth. The aim of the present paper was to explore the impact on the research assistant who conducted 22 in-depth interviews with the parents. One of the members of the research team interviewed the research assistant to elicit her reactions. The interview was content analyzed and the following themes were identified: (i). appreciation of an egalitarian model of research; (ii). the emotions expressed by the research assistant; (iii). making sense of the inexplicable and (iv). reflections and comparison to her own life role. The research team would like to advance the theory that the adoption of a formal debriefing mechanism be integrated into the qualitative research process.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 92%

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confidence: 84%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Impact of in‐depth interviews on the interviewer: Roller coaster ride

Beale

Cole²,

Hillege

et al. 2004

Nursing & Health Sciences

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“…However, it was not in the dialectical distance that my understanding of these patients was bom; it was in the gut wrenching, tear inducing empathy with the pain of cancer that I felt I understood these people. Rothman (1986) expressed a similar reaction when she wrote about studying women who underwent amniocentesis to test for birth defects in their fetus. Having a baby of her own as she wrote this project heightened her connection to her participants: &dquo;the women became so real to me; I came to know them, to care, to identify.…”

Section: Itmentioning

confidence: 82%

"Then You Know How I Feel": Empathy, Identification, and Reflexivity in Fieldwork

Ellingson

1998

Qualitative Inquiry

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This article extends the discussion of the subjective and positioned nature of the researcher in ethnography by examining how a cancer survivor conducting fieldwork in an oncology clinic shapes and is shaped by the experience. Narratives of lived experience interrupt the academic essay to demonstrate my dynamic understanding of the clinic and the connections between my experiences and those of the patients and staff. I explore how my experiences with cancer shape how I understand the patients and staff; how viewing the clinic from multiple viewpoints affects my understanding of it; and how this process influences my understanding of my own experiences as a cancer survivor.Mrs. O'Neih looks up at me from her wheelchair a few feet away in the small examination room, and then looks over at Dr. Fontanella. This patient is a very large woman in her early seventies. An oxygen tube threads its way behind her ears and under her nose. Mrs. O'Neil wears a sleeveless hot pink blouse and a clashing mauve polyester vest and pants. Folds of fat hang loosely off her arms. Her enormous left breast, swollen from an inoperable tumor, droops down over her waist, straining taut the fabric of her blouse. Coarse white hair emerges from her scalp, abruptly turning bright dyedorange after an inch or so. Dr. Fontanella begins to examine Mrs. O'Neil in preparation for her chemotherapy treatment in the infusion center down the hall.On first sight of this woman sitting by her husband and young grandson, I feel only a distant and impersonal sympathy. I listen to her recount test results and symptoms to the doctor in her heavy Brooklyn accent, not unmoved by her plight, but tirgd and distracted by how much my knee hurts.

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“…Researchers' differing responses to stress has been discussed in some literature (Rothman, 1986;Cannon, 1989;Renzetti & Lee, 1993). Gregg (1994, p. 53) has articulated the extreme discomfort of suppressing her inclination to support respondents: 'forcing myself to quash emotional responses in the interest of the research endeavour'.…”

Section: Ethical Commitmentmentioning

confidence: 97%

Dilemmas in Research: Issues of Vulnerability and Disempowerment for the Social Worker/Researcher

Davison

2004

Journal of Social Work Practice

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Reflections: On hard work

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Impact of in‐depth interviews on the interviewer: Roller coaster ride

Impact of in‐depth interviews on the interviewer: Roller coaster ride

"Then You Know How I Feel": Empathy, Identification, and Reflexivity in Fieldwork

Dilemmas in Research: Issues of Vulnerability and Disempowerment for the Social Worker/Researcher

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