[Development of a procedure for community psychological field research: the Contact Analysis Questionnaire]

Numerous community psychology oriented research designs do not sufficiently take into consideration real processes of exchange between person and environment. With the target to enrich community psychology empirically we developed a structured interview scheme for the description of interpersonal transactions. Random samples of self-registered social interactions can be analysed ex posteriori context- and contentwise by the "Kontaktanalysebogen". Following explications and instructions for each paragraph first results concerning objectivity and acceptance in field research are reported. Target groups in particular are individuals threatened by social isolation, e.g. former mental patients. Some empirical results of our own study are given.