Essentials of Dyadic Interviewing

Traditional qualitative interviews typically involve a single subject; interviews of dyads rarely appear outside marketing research and family studies. Experienced qualitative researcher David Morgan’s brief guide to dyadic interviewing provides readers with a road map to expand this technique to many other settings. In dyadic interviews, the interaction and co-constructions of the two subjects provide the data for the researcher. Showing the advantages and disadvantages of interviewing two people at once, the first book on this research topic
-covers key issues of pair rapport, ethics, confidentiality, and dealing with sensitive topics;
-describes the entire process from selecting the participants to the role of the moderator to analyzing results;
-uses examples of grad student experiences, physician behavior, substance abuse, services to elderly, and dementia patients to show its many applications.

David L. Morgan is a professor in the Department of Sociology at Portland State University. He was instrumental in bringing the use of focus groups to social science research and is also one of the leading figures in the use of mixed methods. His books include Focus Groups as Qualitative Research, five volumes of the Focus Group Kit, and Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Methods.