Careless response and attrition as sources of bias in online survey assessments of personality traits and performance

Ward, M.K.; Meade, Adam W.; Allred, Christopher M.; Pappalardo, Gabriel; Stoughton, J. William

doi:10.1016/j.chb.2017.06.032

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“…Finally, the data collection method was limited to a self-report questionnaire. As the questions involve personality traits and the good deed of pro-environmental behavior, the results, which are derived from the respondents' feedback, may be biased and subjective [93]. Future studies should consider adopting both subjective and objective methods in order to establish a more comprehensive picture of the research subject.…”

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An Investigation of the Influencing Factors of Chinese WeChat Users’ Environmental Information-Sharing Behavior Based on an Integrated Model of UGT, NAM, and TPB

Chen

2020

Sustainability

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Sustainable development is a common challenge for all. Under this background, how to promote public participation in environmental communication has become an important topic. The purpose of this study is to understand the motivating mechanism behind Chinese WeChat users’ environmental information-sharing behavior by taking China’s unique social and cultural background into account. A comprehensive theoretical model for this study is constructed based on the uses and gratification theory, the norm activation model, and the theory of planned behavior. Through an online survey, data were collected from 526 participants to test the research model. The research results show that Chinese WeChat users’ environmental information-sharing behavior is motivated by both egoistic factors (self-presentation, information seeking, and socializing) and altruistic factors (awareness of consequences and ascription of responsibility). During the behavioral decision-making process, these motivating factors impact people’s actual sharing behavior via their attitudes toward the behavior, subjective norms, personal norms, and behavioral intention in various patterns. The findings are discussed from an interdisciplinary perspective of media usage, prosocial behavior, and behavioral psychology. This article not only proposes a new conceptual framework to explain social media users’ behavior of sharing environmental information but also provides important theoretical and practical implications regarding motivating public participation in environmental communication on social media.

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Section: Limiations and Future Workmentioning

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An Investigation of the Influencing Factors of Chinese WeChat Users’ Environmental Information-Sharing Behavior Based on an Integrated Model of UGT, NAM, and TPB

Chen

2020

Sustainability

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“…Task difficulty can be reduced in a number of ways, including keeping surveys short (Johnson et al, 1990), removing superfluous survey questions (Brosnan et al, 2018), using short sentences and simple language (Lenzner, 2014;Lenzner et al, 2011), and avoiding technical terms (Lenzner, 2012(Lenzner, , 2014. Even when these approaches are used, survey respondents face challenges relating to task difficulty and react by taking shortcuts, such as being less careful when responding, paying less attention (Paas et al, 2018;Ward et al, 2017), and not studying in sufficient detail the instructions provided, the questions asked, and the answer options offered (Brosnan et al, 2019). Such shortcuts inevitably reduce survey data quality (Barge & Gehlbach, 2012).…”

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Cognitive load reduction strategies in questionnaire design

Brosnan

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Dolničar

2021

International Journal of Market Research

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Survey data quality suffers when respondents have difficulty completing complex tasks in questionnaires. Cognitive load theory informed the development of strategies for educators to reduce the cognitive load of learning tasks. We investigate whether these cognitive load reduction strategies can be used in questionnaire design to reduce task difficulty and, in so doing, improve survey data quality. We find that this is not the case and conclude that some of the traditional survey answer formats, such as grid questions, which have been criticized in the past lead to equally good data and do not frustrate respondents more than alternative formats.

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“…Several studies suggest that response validity is related to the personality of the respondent. Among the personality dimensions investigated, those that consistently relate to response validity include conscientiousness, agreeableness, and to a lesser extent, openness to experience (Bowling et al, ; Dunn et al, ; Maniaci and Rogge, ; Ward et al, ). These findings stand to reason given the nature of these personality dimensions (Digman, ; McCrae and Costa, ).…”

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Response invalidity in empirical research: Causes, detection, and remedies

Edwards

2019

J of Ops Management

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Research in behavioral operations management and related areas relies heavily on self-report measures. The utility of such measures depends on the extent to which the responses are valid, meaning they correspond to the thoughts and beliefs of respondents with regard to the phenomena under study. Response validity is undermined when respondents are unwilling or unable to provide adequate responses to survey questions, an issue that has generated an array of methods for screening and evaluating survey data and dealing with dubious responses. This article uses the work of Abbey and Meloy (2017) as a point of departure to examine the causes, detection, and remedies of response invalidity. The article concludes with recommendations for future research that treats response validity and its dimensions as methods factors that should be formally incorporated into statistical models. K E Y W O R D S self-report measures, survey research, response validation First published online by Elsevier BV on behalf of The Association for Supply Chain Management, Inc.

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Careless response and attrition as sources of bias in online survey assessments of personality traits and performance

Cited by 73 publications

References 63 publications

An Investigation of the Influencing Factors of Chinese WeChat Users’ Environmental Information-Sharing Behavior Based on an Integrated Model of UGT, NAM, and TPB

An Investigation of the Influencing Factors of Chinese WeChat Users’ Environmental Information-Sharing Behavior Based on an Integrated Model of UGT, NAM, and TPB

Cognitive load reduction strategies in questionnaire design

Response invalidity in empirical research: Causes, detection, and remedies

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