Response styles in factual items: personal, contextual and cultural correlates.

Autor/inn/en	He, Jia; Vijver, Fons J. R. van de
Titel	Response styles in factual items: personal, contextual and cultural correlates.
Quelle	In: International journal of psychology, 51 (2016) 6, S. 445-452Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0020-7594; 1464-066X
DOI	10.1002/ijop.12263
Schlagwörter	Verhalten; Erwachsener; Messung; Verhalten; Internationaler Vergleich; Datenanalyse; Antwort; Datenanalyse; Messung; Interkultureller Vergleich; Internationaler Vergleich; Antwort; Erwachsener; PIAAC (Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies)
Abstract	This study investigated response styles in factual items and explored their associations with personal, contextual and cultural factors. Responses on various factual questions, cognitive tests and interviewers' observational data from a total of 152,514 respondents in 22 countries in the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) were analysed. Indexes of extreme, midpoint and acquiescent response styles were extracted from Likert-scale and dichotomous responses of factual items. A general response style (GRS) with a positive loading of extreme response style and negative loadings of midpoint and acquiescent response styles was confirmed. This factor showed a similar cross-cultural patterning as another general factor from attitudinal and self-evaluative items of Likert scales in a previous study, which indicated the pervasiveness of response styles irrespective of types of survey items. In a multilevel analysis, the individual-level GRS was found to be negatively related to being male, educational level and literacy competency, and positively related to 3rd-person presence and background noise, and at country level negatively associated with socioeconomic development. Cross-level interactions were also found. Implications on the pervasiveness and nature of response styles are discussed. (DIPF/Orig.).
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main
Update	2017/2