Triangulation

Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 24

“…In this way, conceptual families were created as a basis for mapping relationships across the narratives. The team conducted telephonic conversations to process insights from individual analysis and triangulate (Kimchi, Polivka, & Stevenson 1991) this analysis to formulate 20 axial or parent codes. This iterative process of text-to-code and codeto-code revision by the researchers not only increased the trustworthiness of our findings (Creswell, 2007;Merriam, 2002) but led to dynamic discussions and opportunities to constantly return to the data and evaluate or confirm our analysis.…”

Fulfilling a sense of duty: how men and women giving care to spouses with multiple sclerosis interpret this role

“…An interpretive reading of the interviews was conducted, which called for our active involvement in inferring meaning from the data (Mason, 1996). Both researchers brought different backgrounds to the study, namely sociology and health care policy and management, which allowed the data to be interpreted from different angles and constituted researcher triangulation (Kimchi et al, 1991). In analysing the interview material in the original sample of 21 spouse caregivers, two related, core areas emerged.…”

“…The interviews with the caregivers were compared with the interviews of their spouses for the sake of data triangulation (Kimchi et al, 1991). We report elsewhere on the experiences of the disabled persons as a result of MS (Boeije et al, 2002).…”

Postpositivist critical multiplism: Its value for nursing research

“…Triangulation has been described as using one or more approaches to answer a research question (Heale & Forbes, 2013). This may involve the integration of theoretical perspectives, multiple methods and data sources to study a single phenomenon (Kimchi, Polivka, & Stevenson, 1991).…”