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Bracketing in qualitative research: Conceptual and practical matters
Abstract
Bracketing is presented as two forms of researcher engagement: with data and with evolving findings. The first form is the well-known identification and temporary setting aside of the researcher's assumptions. The second engagement is the hermeneutic revisiting of data and of one's evolving comprehension of it in light of a revised understanding of any aspect of the topic. Both of these processes are ongoing, and they include the careful development of language with which to represent findings. Extensive everyday examples of bracketing and of interviewing are presented. As a form of disclosure in qualitative research, the background from which this article was written is shared. At that point, Husserl's and Heidegger's historical introductions of bracketing are presented briefly, followed by a discussion of reflexivity and hermeneutics. The article closes with warnings of how residual positivism can work against qualitative rigor and with a suggested qualitative research study on bracketing.
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“Bracketing was used during data collection and interpretation to set aside assumptions, vested interests and personal beliefs stemming from prior experience and knowledge of authors who work with IBD populations; both in research and tertiary healthcare systems (Fischer, 2009).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Fischer, C. T.
- Affiliations
- Duquesne University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Fischer, Constance T.
- Venue
- Psychotherapy Research
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2009-07
- Volume
- 19
- Issue
- 4-5
- Pages
- 583-590
- ISSN
- 1050-3307 (ISSN-L)
- 1468-4381
- OpenAlex
- W2109324538
- Cited by
- 467
- References
- 18
- Citations by year
- 2026: 22 · 2025: 37 · 2024: 37 · 2023: 31 · 2022: 30 · 2021: 39 · 2020: 44 · 2019: 28 · 2018: 38 · 2017: 31 · 2016: 29 · 2015: 29 · 2014: 27 · 2013: 26 · 2012: 9
- FWCI
- 19.32
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Psychotherapy Research (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
- Social Sciences › Education › Qualitative Research Methods and Applications
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
- Keywords
- bracketing, researcher assumptions, hermeneutics, reflexivity, qualitative research rigor, Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger
- MeSH terms
- Humans, Psychology
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