Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Social interaction
and validity
- Interviewer bias
- Interviewer may ask 'leading'
questions, which 'tells' the
interviewee how to answer
- Can occur when an
interviewer identifies too
closely with interviewee's
- Artificiality
- Although unstructured
interviews are relaxed,
they still occur in an
artificial environment
- Doubtful
whether truthful
answers can be
obtained
- Status and power
inequalities
- Gender differences in
power and status can
shape the interview
- Ethnic differences
can shape the
interview
- In structured
interviews there is
more control
- Cultural differences
- Misunderstanding
meanings given to
the same words
- Harder to
detect lying
- Socially
desirability effect
- Interviewees may
give socially
desirable answers
- Ethical issues
- Informed consent
must be given
- Interviewee's may
feel under pressure
to answer
- Anonymity given
- Improving
validity of
interviews
- Follow up interviews
to check answers
- Asking Q's
quickly, little
time to think
- Ethnically and
language-match
interviewers and
interviewees
- Pilot study