Self-Care and the Qualitative Researcher
When Collecting Data Can Break Your Heart
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9733975 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kathleen B Rager (University of Oklahoma, 820 Van Vleet Oval, Norman, OK 73019-0260; Her research interests include self-directed learning in the contexts of both patient education and corporate training; gender and learning; and emotions as related to the qualitative paradigm, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 23-27 |
| Publication date | 2005-05-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Educational Researcher (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-189X • E-ISSN: 1935-102X |
| Publisher | American Educational Research Association (AERA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3102/0013189x034004023 |
| OpenAlex | W2018423397 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 62 |
| References cited | 16 |
Conducting qualitative research on topics that are emotionally laden can have a powerful impact on the researcher. Recent literature addresses the essential nature of the emotional connection that must be part of the qualitative research process. However, for the most part, it neglects the issue of self-care strategies for the researcher that are appropriate under these circumstances. Based on the author’s experience in researching the self-directed learning of breast cancer patients and on the limited literature that is available, this article addresses these important topics and calls for increased awareness of these issues and their significance in the preparation of novice researchers
Engineering ethics · Process (computing · Qualitative research · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Empathy and Medical Education · Engineering · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
Rasan-Rasan as Feminist Method
Desafios éticos, metodológicos e práticos na pesquisa qualitativa em saúde
Disrupting the self
Undertaking Sensitive Research in the Health and Social Sciences
Practical and Ethical Dilemmas in Researching Sensitive Topics with Populations Considered Vulnerable
Ethnographic Methods, Young People, and a High School
Deselection from elite Australian football as the catalyst for a return to sub-elite competitions
From Novice to Expert
Walking in Between
Doing sensitive research
Interviewee Transcript Review as a Tool to Improve Data Quality and Participant Confidence in Sensitive Research
Dilemas de posicionalidad de sujeto/a en la investigación narrativa dialógica feminista
Un viaje por las emociones en procesos de investigación feminista
Understanding Teenage Motherhood through Feminist Research
The reflective research diary
Introduction
Reflecting on death
Speaking from the Inside
Theory and methodology in researching emotions in education
Studying Corruption
Grey Matter
When Dealing with Human Subjects
Expecting penises in Chatroulette
The ethics of drug use research and ‘wild self-care’
Methodological challenges of sensitive topic research with adolescents
Exploring research relationships and other ethical challenges of participatory visual research in remote environments
What does it feel like to live here? Exploring sensory ethnography as a collaborative methodology for investigating social determinants of health in place
Negative Emotions in Fieldwork
Researcher Emotions as Data, a Tool and a Factor in Professional Development
Through the Looking Glass”
Member Checking
Exploring possibilities for a feminist ethic of collective care in suicide research
Researcher vulnerability
The love that takes a toll
Long-Term Housing and Intimate Partner Violence
Touching the dead
Unexpected Negative Participant Responses and Researcher Safety
Exploring the Concept of Moral Distress with Community-Based Researchers
Scared to Death
A Price Worth Paying
Flanking Gestures
Almost Confessional
Encountering and processing secondary traumatic stress during qualitative interviews with displaced Iraqis
Storytelling in a digital age
Structuration theory investigation of elite Rugby players' perceptions on how the transition from player to retired player impacted their significant others
Reflections on the Role of Emotion in Feminist Research
Letters to those who Dare Feel
What Should I Do Now
Sensitive, Challenging, and Difficult Topics
Role Relationships in Research
Where Do We Go from Here? A Co-authored Autoethnographic Reflection on the Emotional Labor of Qualitative Interviewing and How to Navigate It
Shadowing Stroke Patients to Explore the Rehabilitation Built Environment
Expanding the Notion of Researcher Distress
The Impact of Working with Disturbing Secondary Data
Reflections and Recommendations for Conducting In-Depth Interviews With People With Dementia
Feelings and Intersubjectivity in Qualitative Suicide Research
Outsourcing Transcription
(Un)disciplined emotion and the research process
Tales from the Ethnographic Field
Show Some Emotion
Vulnerability and Emotions in Research
Close But Not Too Close
| Citations per year | 2.95 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2005 - 2026 (22) |
| Highly cited | No |