Key Characteristics and Values of interviews Flashcards

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Relational

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a brief relationship between interviewer and interviewee, requiring trust and reciprocity, built via the full interview process

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Contextual

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people are complex, and life happens amidst many overlapping complexities; aim for specificity avoid the dull general

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Non-evaluative

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aim is to understand what people think, feel, perceive, and experience, not to judge; judging can cause loss of rich description

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Person centered

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the person’s experience with the interview is more important than the data -> stay engaged and stay alert to signs of distress

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Temporal (time based)

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researchers should be aware of teh temporal nature of a person’s development trajectory, that key moments in time can be greatly impactful to what is shared and how it’s shared

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Partial

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researchers must understand that an interview is a brief interaction, and the data collected from the interview doesn’t encapsulate the entirety of that individual; it is a partial glimpse into their life

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Subjective

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people live their lives through their own interpretation. Researchers should aim to understand people’s positions, views, adn experiences - to understand the individual’s subjectivity

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Non-neutral

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interviews have layers of bias, assumption, politics (micro and macro), and other influences. The data received is mediated by numerous factors, found within both the interviewee and the interviewer

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