Adjusting Self-Reported Attitudinal Data for Mischievous Respondents

Hyman, Michael R.; Sierra, Jeremy J.

doi:10.2501/ijmr-54-1-129-145

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“…Prior research has revealed that a quite substantial proportion of participants in CEs make random choices (many of which are probably “mischievous respondents,” cf. Hyman & Sierra, 2012); this can lead to severely attenuated parameter estimates if not controlled (Grunert et al, 2015). The LGC module enables identifying participants whose choices are not related to the alternatives' attributes at all.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Goal activation for sustainable consumer choices: A comparative study of Denmark and Brazil

Thøgersen

Alfinito

2020

J of Consumer Behaviour

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To study the context dependence of the impact of goal activation on sustainable consumer choices in an online survey, 1,031 participants in Denmark and 1,028 in Brazil were randomly allocated to three different goal-activation manipulations, which were set up to activate a normative goal, a hedonic goal, and a gain goal, respectively. Goal-activation impacts were measured with a choice experiment consisting of six repeated choices of tomatoes. The importance for consumer choices of each of the varied product attributes for consumer choices can be linked to characteristics that differ between countries. Therefore, it was predicted that the importance of attributes differs between Denmark and Brazil. This was confirmed for one of the three attributes (appearance), but not for the other two (organic and price). Still, as predicted, the goal-activation manipulation influenced the impact of varied product attributes (two out of three) on choices. The activation of a normative goal made participants in both countries more likely to choose organic tomatoes and less focused on the appearance of the tomatoes. However, the goal-activation manipulation did not influence the importance of the price. The findings suggest that the situational activation of a normative goal can be an effective means to promote sustainable consumer choices in very different national contexts.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Goal activation for sustainable consumer choices: A comparative study of Denmark and Brazil

Thøgersen

Alfinito

2020

J of Consumer Behaviour

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“…For Harman's singlefactor test, results of the unrotated EFA solution for PCA and MLE show a multifactor solution and first-factor explained variance of 25.07%; CFA results also are robust.These results, along with low intra-respondent variance (Hyman and Sierra, 2012), suggest CMB did not meaningfully affect the studied relationships.…”

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confidence: 62%

“…Again, the CFA-based multi-trait multi-method technique and Harman's single-factor test, along with low intra-respondent variance (Hyman and Sierra, 2012), indicate no CMB concerns; the CFA results reveal valid and reliable measures and the unrotated EFA solution (for both PCA and MLE) reveals a multi-factor solution with first-factor explained variance of 28.27%.…”

Section: Common Methods Biasmentioning

confidence: 99%

Intrinsic Religiosity and Attitude toward Finales as Precursors of Superstitious Beliefs: A Cross-Cultural Investigation

Sierra¹,

Hyman²,

Lee³

et al. 2017

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Leaning on the theoretical tenets of experiential consumption and attitude process literatures, this cross-cultural research uses path analysis to examine antecedents and consequences of superstitious beliefs. For the Korean data, attitude toward finales fully mediates the relationship between intrinsic religiosity and superstitious beliefs. For the U.S. data, intrinsic religiosity has no effect on either attitude toward finales or superstitious beliefs. For both samples, (1) attitude toward finales has a positive effect on suspension of disbelief, and (2) attitude toward zodiac signs and zodiac sign expertise relate positively to superstitious beliefs. This research adds to the religiosity and superstition literatures by exploring carefully selected yet under-researched antecedents and consequences of consumers' superstitious beliefs. The mediation effect for Korean respondents and model differences between the Korean and U.S. respondent sets provide novel empirical results.

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“…We suspected that the high-PTE respondents were not outliers in the traditional sense, in that their responses were not simply extreme versions of true scores, but rather that because of the large, online commercial panel data-context of data collection, many of these respondents were not sufficiently attending to survey items or were simply falsifying data to get through the reporting task with minimal effort. Such concerns have been noted in the literature concerning mischievous respondents (Hyman & Sierra, 2012;Robinson-Cimpian, 2014) and so-called professional respondents in large online data collection (Hillygus et al, 2014). After several rounds of data analytics (Verkuilen & Rasmussen, 2020), we decided to identify these aberrant respondents using a two-tiered identification strategy: One tier examined patterns of reporting across types of PTEs using latent profile analysis (LPA), and another tier limited the number of statistically extreme counts of PTEs per respondent.…”

Section: Participants and Proceduresmentioning

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Measuring Trauma Exposure: Count Versus Variety of Potentially Traumatic Events in a Binational Sample

Rasmussen

Romero

Leon

et al. 2020

Journal of Traumatic Stress

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Traumatic event checklists typically ask respondents to indicate whether they have experienced particular types of potentially traumatic events (PTEs) and then sum these endorsements to gauge cumulative trauma exposure. However, the sum of these endorsements indicates the variety of PTEs respondents have experienced rather than the count of exposure events. The main objective of the present study was to explore the association between PTE count and variety to examine assumptions regarding the use of traumatic event checklists to measure cumulative trauma exposure. The limited empirical research suggests that count and variety are strongly associated; however, there may be variation in magnitude concerning whether participants' environments confer an increased or decreased risk of exposure. We present Life Event Checklist data from a large sample of Mexican and U.S. participants (n = 1,820), which allowed us to compare reports of count and variety. Count and variety were strongly correlated, Kendall's tau-b = .74, such that count accounted for 54.6% of the variance in variety. A negative binomial regression analysis revealed that this association was moderated by county and municipio homicide rate, used as a proxy for violent crime, but not by natural disaster history. Variety was more strongly associated with scores on the Posttraumatic Stress Checklist for DSM-5, Kendall's tau-b = .26, than was PTE count, Kendall's tau-b = .22, Fisher's z = −8.04, p < .001. Although there are challenges in estimating PTE counts, the present findings suggest that PTE variety is not a good proxy for cumulative trauma exposure.

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Adjusting Self-Reported Attitudinal Data for Mischievous Respondents

Cited by 42 publications

References 74 publications

Goal activation for sustainable consumer choices: A comparative study of Denmark and Brazil

Goal activation for sustainable consumer choices: A comparative study of Denmark and Brazil

Intrinsic Religiosity and Attitude toward Finales as Precursors of Superstitious Beliefs: A Cross-Cultural Investigation

Measuring Trauma Exposure: Count Versus Variety of Potentially Traumatic Events in a Binational Sample

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