Theoretical reflections on reliability and validity in qualitative research: towards analytical reflexivity

Authors

  • Danielle Regina Ullrich
  • Josiane Silva de Oliveira PPGA/EA/UFRGS
  • Kenny Basso IMED e PPGA/EA/UFRGS
  • Monize Sâmara Visentini UFRGS

Keywords:

Qualitative research. Reliability. Validity. Reflexivity.

Abstract

The orientation toward the practice and social action in qualitative research allows discussing the methodological procedures employed in these studies beyond the issue of its operational dimension. In this sense, the criteria used for the operationalization of these studies imply the recognition of the dimensions of the joints ontological, epistemological and methods of this research, where we can situate these debates in the field of analytical reflexivity. Among these criteria, this theoretical paper aims to discuss the reliability and validity in qualitative research, to develop understanding of this context in order to overcome the critical and operational debates. The reliability criterion in qualitative research refers to the establishment of a mechanism of systematic and reliable ways of understanding social dynamics. For the validity verification in qualitative studies are presented different approaches, such as transactional, transformational, apparent, instrumental and theoretical validity. The discussion presented proposes a reliability evaluation beyond the methodological procedures employed, beginning toward analytical reflexivity. We treat the reliability criterion in terms of ontological, epistemological and methodical and we summed up some traditional and new criteria that can be adopted in order to increase the reliability and validity in qualitative research.

Author Biographies

Danielle Regina Ullrich

Doutoranda do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Administração da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil), bolsista do Cnpq. Mestre em Desenvolvimento Regional e Graduada em Administração e em Turismo e Lazer pela Universidade Regional de Blumenau (Santa Catarina, Brasil).

Josiane Silva de Oliveira, PPGA/EA/UFRGS

Graduação e Mestrado em Administração pelo Universidade Estadual de Maringá (PR).  Doutoranda do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Administração da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil).


Kenny Basso, IMED e PPGA/EA/UFRGS

Doutorando do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Administração da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil). Professor de Marketing da Escola de Administração da Faculdade Meridional - IMED.


Monize Sâmara Visentini, UFRGS

Mestre em Administração pela Universidade Federal de Santa Maria e  Doutoranda do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Administração da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil).

 

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Published

2013-01-09

Issue

Vol. 23 No. 1 (2012)

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