Intacting Integrity in Coping with Healt...

Lene Bastrup Jørgensen, University of Aarhus, Denmark, Stine Leegaard Jepsen, University of Aarhus, Denmark, Bengt Fridlund, Jönköping University, Sweden, Judith A. Holton, Mount Allison University, Canada Abstract The aim of this study was to discover and elaborate a general substantive theory (GST) on the multidimensional behavioral process of coping with health issues.  Intacting integrity while coping with health issues emerged as the core category of this GST.  People facing health issues strive to safeguard and keep intact their integrity not only on an individual...

Remodelling the Life Course: Making the ...

Milka Satinovic, Western Norway University, Norway Abstract The aim of the study was to develop a substantive grounded theory on how to live a life as good as possible with multiple sclerosis (MS). The question of how to improve the quality of life is of key importance when speaking of a chronic illness like MS. We still have little knowledge of this important question from the patients’ perspective. Classic grounded theory was used to explore patients’ experiences of living with MS. The aim was to identify their main concern and how they process this concern at different...

Celebrating 50 Years of Grounded Theory:...

Astrid Gynnild, University of Bergen Welcome to this very special issue of the Grounded Theory Review.  In this issue we celebrate 50 amazing years of grounded theory during which it has become one of the fastest growing methods in the global research world. Five decades after The Discovery of Grounded Theory was first published, the seminal work of founders Barney G. Glaser and Anselm Strauss is cited more than 94,000 times on Google Scholar alone. We celebrate that after 50 years of researching, teaching, defending, explicating and clarifying grounded theory as a...

Comparative Failure in Science

Barney G. Glaser, PhD This article is reprinted from Glaser, B. (1964). Comparative Failure in Science. /Science, 143/(3610), 1012-1012. A perennial problem for some scientists is their feeling of comparative failure as scientists. This problem becomes clearer if we consider two major sources of this feeling that are inherent in the vary nature of scientific work. (i) In science, strong emphasis is placed on the achievement of recognition; (ii) the typical basic scientist works in a community filled with “great men” who have made important and decisive discoveries in...

Offsetting the Affective Filter

Barry Chametzky, PhD