Although generalizability is not typically considered a feature or goal of qualitative research, it is an integral part of applying findings to advance knowledge in the counseling profession. First, we describe types of generalizability, the use of trustworthiness criteria, and strategies for maximizing generalizability within and across studies, then we discuss how the research approaches of grounded theory, autoethnography, content analysis, and metasynthesis can yield greater generalizability of findings. We then describe six phases for aggregating qualitative research to conduct a metasynthesis, which can be applied as relevant to the metastudy approaches of formal grounded theory, autoethnography, and content analysis.

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促进严格的研究：概论和定性研究

尽管普遍性通常不被认为是定性研究的特征或目标，但它是应用发现以提高咨询专业知识的有机组成部分。首先，我们描述了概化的类型，可信赖性标准的使用以及在研究中和整个研究中最大化概化的策略，然后讨论了扎根理论，自传民族志，内容分析和元合成的研究方法如何可以使发现具有更大的概化性。然后，我们描述了六个阶段，以进行定性研究的聚合，以进行元合成，这些阶段可以与形式基础理论，民族志和内容分析的元研究方法相关。