التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Does Mentioning "Some People" and "Other People" in a Survey Question Increase the Accuracy of Adolescents' Self-Reports? |
| المؤلفون: |
Yaeger, David Scott1 dyaeger@stanford.edu, Krosnick, Jon A.1 krosnick@stanford.edu |
| المصدر: |
Developmental Psychology. Nov2011, Vol. 47 Issue 6, p1674-1679. 6p. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
*MATHEMATICAL models, *QUESTIONNAIRES, *RESEARCH funding, *SELF-evaluation, *STATISTICS, *TERMS & phrases, RESEARCH evaluation |
| مصطلحات جغرافية: |
NEW York (State) |
| مستخلص: |
A great deal of developmental research has relied on self-reports solicited using the "some/other" question format ("Some students think that... but other students think that.. ."). This article reports tests of the assumptions underlying its use: that it conveys to adolescents that socially undesirable attitudes, beliefs, or behaviors are not uncommon and legitimizes reporting them, yielding more valid self-reports than would be obtained by "direct" questions, which do not mention what other people think or do. A meta-analysis of 11 experiments embedded in four surveys of diverse samples of adolescents did not support the assumption that the some/other form increases validity. Although the some/other form led adolescents to think that undesirable attitudes, beliefs, or behaviors were more common and resulted in more reports of those attitudes and behaviors, answers to some/other questions were lower in criterion validity than were answers to direct questions. Because some/other questions take longer to ask and answer and require greater cognitive effort from participants (because they involve more words), and because they decrease measurement accuracy, the some/other question format seems best avoided. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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