TY - JOUR
T1 - Establishing Trustworthiness in Qualitative Research in Social Work
T2 - Implications from a Study Regarding Spirituality
AU - Lietz, Cynthia
AU - Langer, Carol L.
AU - Furman, Rich
PY - 2006/12
Y1 - 2006/12
N2 - As the use of qualitative inquiry increases within the field of social work, researchers must consider the issue of establishing rigor in qualitative research. This article presents research procedures used in a study of autoethnographies that were written regarding the experience of being Jewish. In this project, the researchers utilized reflexivity, audit trail, triangulation by observer, peer debriefing, member check and prolonged engagement in order to manage the threats to trustworthiness as discussed by Padgett (1998). Implications of the project suggest that research procedures utilized by qualitative researchers to establish rigor are an important way to increase our confidence that the voice of the participants is heard, therefore fitting the mission of the social work profession.
AB - As the use of qualitative inquiry increases within the field of social work, researchers must consider the issue of establishing rigor in qualitative research. This article presents research procedures used in a study of autoethnographies that were written regarding the experience of being Jewish. In this project, the researchers utilized reflexivity, audit trail, triangulation by observer, peer debriefing, member check and prolonged engagement in order to manage the threats to trustworthiness as discussed by Padgett (1998). Implications of the project suggest that research procedures utilized by qualitative researchers to establish rigor are an important way to increase our confidence that the voice of the participants is heard, therefore fitting the mission of the social work profession.
KW - qualitative methodology
KW - rigor
KW - spirituality
KW - trustworthiness
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U2 - 10.1177/1473325006070288
DO - 10.1177/1473325006070288
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:43249152844
VL - 5
SP - 441
EP - 458
JO - Qualitative Social Work
JF - Qualitative Social Work
SN - 1473-3250
IS - 4
ER -