The Impact of Respondent Attentiveness on Reliability and Validity

Autor/inn/en	Silber, Henning; Danner, Daniel; Rammstedt, Beatrice
Titel	The Impact of Respondent Attentiveness on Reliability and Validity
Quelle	In: International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 22 (2019) 2, S.153-164 (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1364-5579
DOI	10.1080/13645579.2018.1507378
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Test Validity; Test Reliability; Attention; Error of Measurement; Online Surveys; Response Style (Tests); Germany + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Testvalidität; Testreliabilität; Aufmerksamkeit; Messfehler; Antwortverhalten; Deutschland
Abstract	This study aims to assess whether respondent inattentiveness causes systematic and unsystematic measurement error that influences survey data quality. To determine the impact of (in)attentiveness on the reliability and validity of target measures, we compared respondents from a German online survey (N = 5205) who had passed two attention checks with those who had failed. Our results show that inattentiveness induces both random and systematic measurement error, which impacts estimates of the reliability and validity of multi-item scales. In addition, we conducted a sensitivity analysis, which revealed that the impact of inattentiveness on analyses can be substantial. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01