Couple interview

social sciences, where two spouses are interviewed together.^[1] Such an interview is typically semi-structured or unstructured. Couple interviews are important in household research, often from a psychological, sociological, anthropological or social geographical perspective, and are also frequently used within health research.^[2] A couple interview is a form of joint interviewing (interviews involving two interviewees), the subject of a growing methodological research literature.^[1][2]

interaction between the informants, as well as with the researcher(s), in the interview situation, which may also reveal controversies and areas of conflict, by providing a reflective space for both partners together, which enables them to challenge as well as to reinforce each other's accounts.^[1] They further argue that the researcher plays an important role, as couple interviews may be seen as an arena of "family display",^[1] using a concept originally proposed by Janet Finch.^[4] The opportunity to observe shared storytelling is regarded as a widely documented advantage of joint interviewing.^[1]