NVivo originated in the Grounded Theory tradition but used the qualitative research community to evolve to the all-encompassing application helpful for a wide range of qualitative and mixed methods studies.īarbour, R.
The chapter concludes with the observation that NVivo is a multipurpose tool that allows researchers to find their own way and handle a multitude of textual and audio-visual material in numerous ways. The second part of the chapter illustrates the triple power of NVivo: data management, data coding and data analysis by querying coded material or developing conceptual models. Despite this criticism, NVivo is a helpful tool to gain depth and breath in one’s analysis. Even though NVivo and other qualitative software programs are considered today as evident tools for the qualitative researcher, several critical objections have been made against it: the legitimation of any analysis by using software, conflation of qualitative data analysis with the coding process, distancing a researcher from his data and the issue of oversized qualitative research projects. The chapter first presents a critical appraisal of this type of research software in the qualitative research cycle. In summary, QSR‐NVivo is a powerful tool that, if used appropriately, can facilitate many aspects of the grounded theory process from the design and early sampling procedures, through to the analysis of data, theoretical development and presentation of findings.This chapter discusses NVivo, a software program to perform Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis. The purpose of this is to demonstrate how different functions of QSR‐NVivo may be used in conjunction with the key grounded theory characteristics. It then describes the development of a recent study, which examined how people successfully maintain long‐term physical activity behaviour change.
To achieve this, the paper identifies a number of grounded theory characteristics, common to all revisions of the methodology.
This paper argues that qualitative data analysis software can be used to encourage good quality grounded theory research by facilitating many of the key processes and characteristics associated with this approach.
Recent research evidence has questioned the methodological quality of many studies that claim to utilise grounded theory. This paper demonstrates how the software package QSR‐NVivo can be used to faciitate a grounded theory approach.
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