Conducting Survey Research Using MTurk

Chambers, Silvana; Nimon, Kim

doi:10.4018/978-1-5225-8362-2.ch022

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“…For example, Amazon's Mechanical Turk (MTurk), an online crowdsourcing website, can provide quick, easy, and inexpensive access to online research participants; however, there are concerns surrounding the quality and integrity of responses ( Dennis et al, 2020 ; Goodman et al, 2013 ). While such platforms can be a useful source of convenience samples, researchers are encouraged to be mindful of the limitations and employ more stringent measures to provide highly transparent and reproducible science ( Chambers and Nimon, 2019 ). The pandemic has also highlighted disparities between countries.…”

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Experiences and challenges in mental health research and practice during COVID-19: Perspectives from emerging psychologists across five countries

Simon

Adams

Goh

et al. 2021

Asian Journal of Psychiatry

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Experiences and challenges in mental health research and practice during COVID-19: Perspectives from emerging psychologists across five countries

Simon

Adams

Goh

et al. 2021

Asian Journal of Psychiatry

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“…Participants can be screened for specific characteristics such as US residency. Although Mturk has both strengths and limitations like any source of data (14) , several empirical studies have indicated that samples recruited in this manner match the demographics of the USA more closely than typical convenience or Internet samples and yield high-quality data (15)(16)(17) . Mturk has been used successfully to conduct research on eating habits in general and food parenting practices specifically (18,19) .…”

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An examination of food parenting practices: structure, control and autonomy promotion

Musher‐Eizenman

Goodman

Roberts

et al. 2018

Public Health Nutr.

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ObjectiveIn recent years, researchers have been working towards creating a standard conceptual framework of food parenting. To understand how parents’ reports correspond with the proposed model, the current study examined parents’ reports of their feeding behaviours in the context of a newly established framework of food parenting.DesignCross-sectional, with a two-week follow-up for a subset of the sample. Participants completed a quantitative and qualitative survey to assess food parenting. The survey included items from common food parenting instruments to measure the constructs posited in the framework. Exploratory factor analyses were conducted to ascertain which items related most closely to one another and factors were mapped on to existing constructs.SettingOnline.ParticipantsParents of children aged 2·5–7 years (n 496). Of these, 122 completed a two-week follow-up.ResultsAnalyses revealed eleven aspects of Structure (monitoring; distraction; family presence; meal/snack schedule; unstructured practices; healthy/unhealthy food availability; food preparation; healthy/unhealthy modelling; rules), ten aspects of Coercive Control (pressure to eat; using food to control emotions; food incentives to eat; food incentives to behave; non-food incentives to eat; restriction for health/weight; covert restriction; clean plate; harsh coercion) and seven aspects of Autonomy Promotion (praise; encouragement; nutrition education; child involvement; negotiation; responsive feeding; repeated offering). Content validity, assessed via parents’ open-ended explanations of their responses, was high, and test–retest reliability was moderate to high. Structure and Autonomy Promoting food parenting were highly positively correlated.ConclusionsIn general, parents’ responses provided support for the model, but suggested some amendments and refinements.

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Impacts of procurement strategies on construction SMEs’ growth

Windapo¹,

Olugboyega

Odediran

2020

JFMPC

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Purpose This study aims to investigate the impacts of procurement strategies on the growing proportion of construction small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and whether the size of the construction company moderates the effect. Design/methodology/approach This study adopted a quantitative research approach and a cross-sectional questionnaire survey in achieving its objectives. The survey requires the respondent to identify both the most successful and most outstanding project that the respondent was involved in between 2010 and 2016. Findings The study found that only traditional and management-oriented procurement strategies ensure the achievement of all growth plans for construction SMEs in South Africa; and that medium-sized construction enterprises achieve social growth such as community empowerment, managerial skills and advancement on the cidb Register of Contractors. Practical implications The findings of the study imply that policymakers should base their decisions regarding macroeconomic issues and growth plans for construction SMEs on the internal and external factors such as differences in the sizes of construction SMEs and differences in the suitability of procurement strategies affecting the growth of construction SMEs. Originality/value In past studies, the diversity amongst SMEs is often overlooked and SMEs are erroneously assumed to share similar objectives, possess equal capabilities and face challenges of the same magnitude. The original contribution of this study is shown in the investigation of the moderating effect of SMEs’ diversity (in terms of company size) on their growth proportion as influenced by procurement strategies.

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Conducting Survey Research Using MTurk

Cited by 4 publications

References 71 publications

Experiences and challenges in mental health research and practice during COVID-19: Perspectives from emerging psychologists across five countries

Experiences and challenges in mental health research and practice during COVID-19: Perspectives from emerging psychologists across five countries

An examination of food parenting practices: structure, control and autonomy promotion

Impacts of procurement strategies on construction SMEs’ growth

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