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Researching sensitive topics: qualitative research as emotion work
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There is a growing awareness that undertaking qualitative research is an embodied experience and that researchers may be emotionally affected by the work that they do. Despite the interest in the emotional nature of qualitative research, there is very little empirical evidence about the researchers' experiences of undertaking qualitative research. A grounded theory analysis of one-on-one interviews with thirty public health researchers working on a qualitative project provided both theoretical and empirical evidence that qualitative researchers undertake emotion work throughout their research projects. The findings provide examples of researchers doing emotion work in their research projects; highlight some of the consequences of emotion work and offer some suggestions for researcher self-care.
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- Dickson-Swift, V., James, E. L., Kippen, S., & Liamputtong, P.
- Venue
- Qualitative Research
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2009-02
- Volume
- 9
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 61-79
- ISSN
- 1468-7941 (ISSN-L)
- 1741-3109
- OpenAlex
- W2034350211
- Cited by
- 554
- References
- 73
- FWCI
- 49.93
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
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