Inductive and Deductive: Ambiguous Labels in Qualitative Content Analysis
2018
The propounded dualism in Content Analysis as quantitative and qualitative approaches is widely supported and justified in nursing literature. Nevertheless, another sort of dualism is proposed for Qualitative Content Analysis, suggesting the adoption of “inductive” and/or “deductive” approaches in the process of qualitative data analysis. These approaches have been referred and labelled as “inductive” or “conventional”; and “deductive” or “directed” content analysis in the literature. Authors argue that these labels could be fallacious, and may lead to ambiguity; as in effect, both approaches are employed with different dominancy during the process of any Qualitative Content Analysis. Thus, authors suggest more expressive, comprehensive, yet simple labels for this method of qualitative data analysis. © 2018: Mohammad Reza Armat, Abdolghader Assarroudi, Mostafa Rad, Hassan Sharifi, Abbas Heydari, and Nova Southeastern University.
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