Highlights / Working with Validity in Qualitative Research (Pt1) - Drs Ronkainen & Wiltshire

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There is a long tradition of debates on how to address the quality and rigor of qualitative research. In sport and exercise psychology (SEP), the relativist perspective has been the dominant viewpoint in these debates.

In the absence of published critiques of the relativist perspective in SEP, Drs Ronkainen and Wiltshire wrote a paper Rethinking validity in qualitative sport and exercise psychology research: a realist perspective. They argued that the relativist approach becomes problematic when attempting to reject the “anything goes” problem because of the assumptions of internal, multiple, and mind-dependent realities. Drawing on realist literature in other fields of social science, they proposed using realist principles of ontological plausibility, empirical adequacy and practical utility in working with threats to validity.

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