Notwithstanding diverse opinions and debates about mixing methods, mixed methods
research (MMR) is increasingly being used in sport and exercise psychology. In this paper …

Objectives To stimulate debate in sport and exercise psychology about the nature of mixed
methods research as currently practiced and how this approach might develop in the future …

In the past, quantitative and qualitative approaches to research were portrayed as being
incompatible, if not mutually exclusive. More recently, however, researchers have explored …

Deploying more than one method of data collection and/or analysis in empirical research is
certainly not a new phenomenon. Indeed, it is often an intuitive and practical response to the …

Mixed methods studies are been increasingly applied to a diversity of fields. In this paper,
we discuss the growing use—and enormous potential—of mixed methods research in the …

In recent years, much social scientific scholarship in sport, exercise and health (SEH) has
repudiated (post) positivist research and has instead persuasively argued in favour of …

Amid the increasing use of qualitative methods in the field of sport psychology, a number of
researchers have initiated discussions about issues of rigour and quality in qualitative …

Over the last two decades, the relativist approach has significantly shaped debates about
the quality and rigour of qualitative research in sport and exercise psychology (SEP). In the …

Descriptive reviews of qualitative research across two decades–1990–1999 (Culver, D.,
Gilbert, W., & Trudel, P.(2003). A decade of qualitative research published in sport …

3 whatever they believe can be known? Once again, the answer given to this question is
constrained by the answers given to the two previous questions; that is, not just any …