QUESTIONNAIRE VERSUS INTERVIEW METHODS IN THE STUDY OF HUMAN LOVE RELATIONSHIPS. II. UNCATEGORIZED RESPONSES.

Previous paper reported a study of questionnaire versus interview methods in a study of human love relationships. This article is concerned with the study of the same methods when categorized questions were employed. Subjects in this investigation were those used in the previous study— sixty-nine college girls who first appeared for a face-to-face interview on their love family relationships and who responded to an anonymous questionnaire, which included some of the same questions that were contained in the interview. Six questions requiring uncategorized responses were included on both the interview and questionnaire presentations. The article concludes that for the purpose of studying love and family relationships of college subjects, the questionnaire method of gathering data seems to be as satisfactory as the interview method and may indeed produce more sell-revelatory information than the interview method. At the same time, the similarity of the data obtained by interview and questionnaire techniques is as conspicuous and important as the obtained differences.