Guided interview

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The guided interview (also called a guided interview ) is a survey technique used in qualitative empirical social research . In a guided interview, predetermined questions are asked, but they can be answered very openly. The procedure is therefore less strict than in most other survey methods in empirical social science.

In the guided interview, no possible answers are given; the interviewed persons can report, comment and explain freely. The advantage of this method is that the interviewer asks specific questions using his catalog of questions, but the interviewed person can answer openly and possibly also focus the conversation on new points of view and expand the entire interview. The interviewer has the task of navigating the interview through the guidelines, but the order in which the questions are asked is not mandatory.

The expert interview is a special form of the guided interview .

literature

  • Ring, Erp (1992): Signals from Society. Psychological diagnostics in survey research. Göttingen, Stuttgart: Publishing house for applied psychology. Pp. 20-41.