Sampling Richness and Qualitative Integrity: Challenges for Research With Families

Roy, Kevin; Zvonkovic, Anisa M.; Goldberg, Abbie E.; Sharp, Elizabeth A.; LaRossa, Ralph

doi:10.1111/jomf.12147

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“…I also conducted intensive participant observations in two families. This study's design privileges data and theoretical saturation and the collection of qualitatively rich data to develop conceptual arguments (Roy, Zvonkovic, Goldberg, Sharp, & LaRossa, ; Weiss, ).…”

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Stand By Your Man: Wives' Emotion Work During Men's Unemployment

Rao

2017

J of Marriage and Family

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Recent research on unemployment has not sufficiently acknowledged how unemployment reverberates within families, particularly emotionally. This article uses data from more than 50 in‐depth interviews to illuminate the emotional demands that men's unemployment makes beyond the unemployed individual. It shows that wives of unemployed men do two types of emotion work—self‐focused and other‐focused—and both are aimed toward facilitating husbands' success in the emotionally arduous white‐collar job‐search process. This article extends research on emotion work by suggesting that participants perceive wives' emotion work as a resource with potential economic benefits in the form of unemployed men's reemployment. The findings furthermore suggest that as a resource, wives' emotion work is shaped by the demands of the labor market that their husbands encounter.

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Stand By Your Man: Wives' Emotion Work During Men's Unemployment

Rao

2017

J of Marriage and Family

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“…Specifically, we sought out individuals to increase variation in the sample to pursue theoretical leads in the data to achieve theoretical saturation (Roy, Zvonkovic, Goldberg, Sharp, & LaRossa, 2015). …”

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The Concept of Familism in the Lived Experiences of Mexican‐Origin Caregivers

Mendez-Luck

Applewhite

Lara

et al. 2016

J of Marriage and Family

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This study qualitatively examined the experiences of Mexican-origin women caring for elderly family members in order to identify aspects of familism in their caregiving situations. Data were collected from onetime interviews with 44 caregivers living in the greater East Los Angeles area. Kinscripts guided the framing of familism in this study. Data were analyzed using a grounded theory approach. Caregivers’ descriptions of the Mexican family reflected an idealized view of familism. Caregivers reported a lack of support from others and relying for support on fewer family members than were potentially available to them. Findings suggest that the construct of familism has evolved from its long-standing portrayals in the literature. More research is needed to reexamine familism as a theoretical perspective to explain how Mexican-origin families negotiate and construct elder care over the family life course.

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“…Throughout sample recruitment and data collection, we prioritized theoretical saturation, meaning the presence of clear and repeating but also rich and multifaceted patterns in the data (Roy et al, 2015). After the initial interviews were collected, the authors conducted initial readings of the interviews and agreed that theoretical saturation was reached on the topics of intimate relationships and depression dynamics.…”

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Relationship dynamics around depression in gay and lesbian couples

Thomeer

Reczek

Umberson

2015

Social Science & Medicine

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Research on intimate relationship dynamics around depression has primarily focused on heterosexual couples. This body of work shows that wives are more likely than husbands to offer support to a depressed spouse. Moreover, when wives are depressed, they are more likely than husbands to try and shield their spouse from the stress of their own depression. Yet, previous research has not examined depression and relationship dynamics in gay and lesbian couples. We analyze in-depth interviews with 26 gay and lesbian couples (N = 52 individuals) in which one or both partners reported depression. We find evidence that dominant gender scripts are both upheld and challenged within gay and lesbian couples, providing important insight into how gender operates in relation to depression within same-sex contexts. Our results indicate that most gay and lesbian partners offer support to a depressed partner, yet lesbian couples tend to follow a unique pattern in that they provide support both as the non-depressed and depressed partner. Support around depression is sometimes viewed as improving the relationship, but if the support is intensive or rejected, it is often viewed as contributing to relationship strain. Support is also sometimes withdrawn by the non-depressed partner because of caregiver exhaustion or the perception that the support is unhelpful. This study points to the importance of considering depression within gay and lesbian relational contexts, revealing new ways support sustains and strains intimate partnerships. We emphasize the usefulness of deploying couple-level approaches to better understand depression in sexual minority populations.

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Sampling Richness and Qualitative Integrity: Challenges for Research With Families

Cited by 110 publications

References 65 publications

Stand By Your Man: Wives' Emotion Work During Men's Unemployment

Stand By Your Man: Wives' Emotion Work During Men's Unemployment

The Concept of Familism in the Lived Experiences of Mexican‐Origin Caregivers

Relationship dynamics around depression in gay and lesbian couples

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