Acquiescence Response Bias--Yeasaying and Higher Education

Autor/inn/en	Costello, Shane; Roodenburg, John
Titel	Acquiescence Response Bias--Yeasaying and Higher Education
Quelle	In: Australian Educational and Developmental Psychologist, 32 (2015) 2, S.105-119 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0816-5122
DOI	10.1017/edp.2015.11
Schlagwörter	Response Style (Tests); Questionnaires; Higher Education; Academic Achievement; Scores; Error of Measurement; Foreign Countries; Adults; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Antwortverhalten; Fragebogen; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Schulleistung; Messfehler; Ausland; Australien
Abstract	Acquiescence response bias is the tendency to agree to questionnaires irrespective of item content or direction, and is problematic for both researchers and clinicians. Further research is warranted to clarify factors relating to the confounding influence of acquiescence. Building on previous research that investigated the interaction between acquiescence, age, and secondary education, the current study has considered the role of adult higher educational achievement and acquiescence. Using the Big Five Inventory (BFI), acquiescence scores were calculated for a sample of 672 Australian adults (age M = 41.38, SD = 12.61). There was a significant inverse relationship between the variance in acquiescence scores and formal education. The greatest difference was found between the lowest education groups and the highest education groups, with the variance of the lower groups more than twice as large as the higher groups. The confounding influence of acquiescence was demonstrated using the BFI and targeted rotation to an ideal matrix, where worse model fit was found in the lower education group compared to the higher group. Implications for both researchers and clinicians are explored. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01