Ethical Dilemmas That Emerge in Highly Personal Qualitative Research

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederick J. Wertz ◽  
Linda M. McMullen ◽  
Ruthellen Josselson ◽  
Rosemarie Anderson ◽  
Kathy Charmaz
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Ethical Dilemmas

scholarly journals Ethical Dilemmas of a Clinician/Researcher Interviewing Women who have Grown up in a Family Where There was Domestic Violence

2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 102-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clarissa Sammut Scerri ◽  
Angela Abela ◽  
Arlene Vetere
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Clinical Training ◽  
Ethical Dilemmas ◽  
The Self ◽  
Grounded Theory Study ◽  
Important Resource ◽  
Interview Process ◽  
The Family

This paper attempts to illuminate some of the ethical dilemmas of a clinician/researcher interviewing women about a sensitive topic- their experience of having witnessed domestic violence in the family they grew up in, as part of a grounded theory study. Vignettes are presented to illustrate the self-reflexive process of the researcher and how she understood the effects of the interview process on her and the participants. The authors argue that doing in-depth qualitative research interviewing is an intervention in the life of the participants, especially, but not only, when the researchers are clinically-trained. However, this clinical training may also be an important resource from which to draw from, to act ethically and understand some of the complexity of the interaction between researcher and participants.

Qualitative research ethics on the spot

2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 455-464 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Øye ◽  
Nelli Øvre Sørensen ◽  
Stinne Glasdam
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Informed Consent ◽  
Research Ethics ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Ethical Dilemmas ◽  
Institutional Review Boards ◽  
Ethical Guidelines ◽  
Ethical Considerations ◽  
Institutional Review ◽  
Review Boards

Background: The increase in medical ethical regulations and bureaucracy handled by institutional review boards and healthcare institutions puts the researchers using qualitative methods in a challenging position. Method: Based on three different cases from three different research studies, the article explores and discusses research ethical dilemmas. Objectives and ethical considerations: First, and especially, the article addresses the challenges for gatekeepers who influence the informant’s decisions to participate in research. Second, the article addresses the challenges in following research ethical guidelines related to informed consent and doing no harm. Third, the article argues for the importance of having research ethical guidelines and review boards to question and discuss the possible ethical dilemmas that occur in qualitative research. Discussion and conclusion: Research ethics must be understood in qualitative research as relational, situational, and emerging. That is, that focus on ethical issues and dilemmas has to be paid attention on the spot and not only at the desktop.

Educação na Época das Incertezas: Como Professores da Educação Básica de Campo Grande se Posicionam

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 215
Author(s):  
Antonio Sales ◽  
Clodoaldo Almeida dos Santos ◽  
Fausto Luiz de França Neto ◽  
Anderson Martins Corrêa
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Public School ◽  
Teaching Practices ◽  
Ethical Dilemmas ◽  
Public School Teachers ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Contemporary Context

O presente trabalho é resultado parcial de um projeto mais amplo, que pretende investigar os dilemas éticos do professor da Rede Pública de Ensino de Campo Grande, MS. Como primeira aproximação se buscou investigar os conflitos vividos no exercício da profissão levando em conta que se está vivendo em uma era de incertezas. A análise tomou por base os pressupostos de Zigmunt Bauman, que considera esta época como dotada de fluidez e ambiguidade. A pesquisa se caracteriza como qualitativa descritiva e os dados foram obtidos por entrevista. A análise aponta para certo grau de sofrimento nos professores de Exatas e a dificuldade deles em lidar com as incertezas e o que consideram falta de interesse por parte dos alunos.Palavras-chave: Ética. Pós-Modernidade. Práticas Docentes.AbstractThis paper is a partial outcome from a more comprehensive project whose goal is to investigate ethical dilemmas of public school teachers from Campo Grande, MS. As first step, the conflicts were investigated that appear during teaching job, considering that we have been living in times of of uncertainty. The research was based on Zigmunt Bauman’s approach, that considers contemporary context provided with ambiguous and fluid thoughts. The present work is a descriptive and qualitative research and data were collected by means of interview. The results have shown the existence of a degree of teachers’ suffering and the difficulty they find about dealing with uncertainty and what they consider lack of interest by their students.Keywords: Ethics. Postmodernity. Teaching Practices.

‘I’ll sue you if you publish my wife’s interview’: ethical dilemmas in qualitative research based on life stories

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 408-423 ◽  
Author(s):  
Galia Sabar ◽  
Naama Sabar Ben-Yehoshua
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Ethical Dilemmas ◽  
Blended Families ◽  
Analysis Phase ◽  
Depth Interviews

This article addresses ethical dilemmas linked to using in-depth interviews while researching blended families in Israel, mainly during the analysis phase and while getting interviewees’ final written approval, prior to publication. Amongst the dilemmas presented are: should we publish statements that we thought might harm the interviewee even though we got their approval? Or those including pejorative statements on members of the interviewee’s extended family who weren’t asked for consent as they weren’t interviewed? We bring several types of changes our interviewees requested and demonstrate how we responded, not always successfully. Finally, we re-think dilemmas related to the complex issues of confidentiality and consent and raise questions – still open – these dilemmas generate. We discuss our own frustrations vis-à-vis the power vested with our interviewees that might affect the quality of any research when too many requests for substantial changes are done as a precondition for a written approval.

scholarly journals Ethical dilemmas and reflexivity in qualitative research

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 69-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne-Marie Reid ◽  
Jeremy M. Brown ◽  
Julie M. Smith ◽  
Alexandra C. Cope ◽  
Susan Jamieson
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Ethical Dilemmas
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