The Individual Consistency of Acquiescence and Extreme Response Style in Self-Report Questionnaires

Autor/inn/en	Weijters, Bert; Geuens, Maggie; Schillewaert, Niels
Titel	The Individual Consistency of Acquiescence and Extreme Response Style in Self-Report Questionnaires
Quelle	In: Applied Psychological Measurement, 34 (2010) 2, S.105-121 (17 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0146-6216
DOI	10.1177/0146621609338593
Schlagwörter	Models; Response Style (Tests); Questionnaires; Measurement Techniques; Reliability; Bias; Foreign Countries; Belgium + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Analogiemodell; Antwortverhalten; Fragebogen; Messtechnik; Reliabilität; Ausland; Belgien
Abstract	The severity of bias in respondents' self-reports due to acquiescence response style (ARS) and extreme response style (ERS) depends strongly on how consistent these response styles are over the course of a questionnaire. In the literature, different alternative hypotheses on response style (in)consistency circulate. Therefore, nine alternative models are derived and fitted to secondary and primary data. It is found that response styles are best modeled as a tau-equivalent factor complemented with a time-invariant autoregressive effect. This means that ARS and ERS are largely but not completely consistent over the course of a questionnaire, a finding that has important implications for response style measurement and correction. (Contains 4 notes, 4 tables and 3 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10