Qualitative research methods were applied to a set of interviews to produce a grounded theory about how adolescent boys and girls reason about challenging problems in their lives. A metasynthesis is a technique for drawing inferences from similar or related studies; bringing together and examining datasets, discovering essential features, and articulating findings representative of all data. Synthesizing is a methodology that increases the credibility and trustworthiness of qualitative research by data triangulation (Meadows-Oliver, 2003). As such, it is a valuable tool for generating theory about the phenomenon and producing new and integrative interpretation of findings about the constructs that emerge.