From the Editor’s Desk

As with many aspects of life during the age of covid-19, the summer issue of the Grounded Theory Review has been delayed.  We are pleased to publish, however late, this issue.  The Grounded Theory Review is dedicated to supporting researchers who conduct classic grounded theory research.  Classic grounded theory is a unique method of discovering never before recognized processes and patterns of human behavior, a method well-suited to studying current issues and processes. These are troubling days of pandemic illness, cultural upheaval, racial animus, international...

Getting Started

Barney G. Glaser Editor’s note:  Especially helpful for those thinking of beginning new research projects, this paper addresses common questions about the particular way in which grounded theorists identify a research problem and craft a research question appropriate for classic grounded theory.  Getting Started was first published by Sociology Press in Glaser’s Emergence vs Forcing: Basics of Grounded Theory Analysis (1992).  This important chapter has been excerpted and lightly edited for clarity and context. It may sometimes be said that one of the most difficult parts...

Strengthening Devotion: A Classic Grounded Theory on Acceptance, Adapt...

Ramona Rolle-Berg, Ph.D., HTCP, MS, CPGL Kara Vander Linden, EdD, MS, BA Abstract The experiences of parents rearing an autistic child(ren) framed an exploration of caregiver well-being using Glaser’s classic grounded theory.  The theory delineates struggles, stress, and self-growth through service.  Viewed as a roadmap, strengthening devotion guides caregivers through a fear-driven landscape of altered perceptions that fuels evolution in awarenss about what it means to love nonjudgmentally with unqualified faith not only in a child(ren) but in one’s own resilience....

Self-Balancing Sanctuarying: A Classic Grounded Theory of Relaxation

Ruth Tiffany Naylor, CPsychol, British Autogenic Society, Ltd., London, England Abstract This author aimed to set out a grounded theory (GT) of relaxation as it is carried out under the normal pressures and tensions of everyday life. After switching from using the Corbin and Strauss grounded theory (2008) design to classic grounded theory, the author discovered a five-step theoretical causal-consequence model emerged from the analysis of what 21 non-anxious-to-slightly-anxious people from the community said what they do to relax. Their main concern is self-balancing. A...

Rolling with the Punches: Clinician Resistance in a Managerial NHS Hos...

Mogamat Reederwan Craayenstein, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Teresa Carmichael, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Awaatief Musson-Craayenstein, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Abstract The substantive area explored in this article is hospital consultants in an English Acute NHS hospital dealing routinely with increasing managerialism. Data were drawn from 49 interviews with hospital consultants, at one English Acute NHS hospital Trust. The classic grounded theory named “Rolling with the Punches” that emerged was enriched by...

Positioning: A classic Grounded theory on nurse researchers employed i...

Connie Berthelsen, RN, MSN, PHD, Aarhus University, Denmark Abstract The purpose of this classic grounded theory was to discover the general pattern of behavior of nurse researchers employed in clinical hospital research positions. Internationally, efforts have been made to strengthen evidence-based practice by hiring more nurses with a PhD for research positions in clinical practice. However, these nurse researchers are often left to define their own roles. I used data from a Danish anthology of six nurse researchers’ experiences of being employed in clinical hospital...