(International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 2009) Humble, Áine
Division of labor in wedding planning varies for first-time marriages, with three types of
couples—traditional, transitional, and egalitarian—identified, but nothing is known about
wedding planning for remarrying individuals. Using semistructured interviews, the author
interviewed 14 couples in which at least one person had remarried and used directed content
analysis to investigate the extent to which the aforementioned typology could be transferred
to this different context. In this paper she describes how a triangulation of analytic
techniques provided validation for couple classifications and also helped with moving
beyond “blind spots” in data analysis. Analytic approaches were the constant comparative
technique, rank order comparison, and visual representation of coding, using MAXQDA
2007’s tool called TextPortrait.