Data Collection Mode and Social Desirability Bias in Self-Reported Religious Attendance

Presser, Stanley; Stinson, Linda

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“…Problems in assessing psychopathology provided an early impetus to the study of social desirability bias (e.g., Jackson & Messick, 1961); self-administration appears to reduce such biases in reports about mental health symptoms (see, e.g., the meta-analysis by Richman et al, 1999). Selfadministration can also reduce reports of socially desirable behaviors that are known to be overreported in surveys, such as attendance at religious services (Presser & Stinson, 1998). Finally, self-administration seems to improve the quality of reports about sexual behaviors in surveys.…”

Section: Mode Of Administrationmentioning

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Sensitive questions in surveys.

Tourangeau¹,

Yan²

2007

Psychological Bulletin

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Psychologists have worried about the distortions introduced into standardized personality measures by social desirability bias. Survey researchers have had similar concerns about the accuracy of survey reports about such topics as illicit drug use, abortion, and sexual behavior. The article reviews the research done by survey methodologists on reporting errors in surveys on sensitive topics, noting parallels and differences from the psychological literature on social desirability. The findings from the survey studies suggest that misreporting about sensitive topics is quite common and that it is largely situational. The extent of misreporting depends on whether the respondent has anything embarrassing to report and on design features of the survey. The survey evidence also indicates that misreporting on sensitive topics is a more or less motivated process in which respondents edit the information they report to avoid embarrassing themselves in the presence of an interviewer or to avoid repercussions from third parties.

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Section: Mode Of Administrationmentioning

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Sensitive questions in surveys.

Tourangeau¹,

Yan²

2007

Psychological Bulletin

2,226

1,554

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“…In addition, during face-to-face data collection, participants may have felt that they were being personally "judged" by their answers to the questions. Social desirability effects are well understood in social psychology to be a source of potential bias especially in face-to-face data collection (Presser and Stinson 1998). In this project, the issues may go deeper than social desirability, as participants may have held strong convictions that there is no alternative other than being deeply religious and unquestioning of faith.…”

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Religious Faith and Psychosocial Adaptation among Stroke Patients in Kuwait: A Mixed Method Study

Omu¹,

Al‐Obaidi

Reynolds

2012

J Relig Health

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Religious faith is central to life for Muslim patients in Kuwait, so it may influence adaptation and rehabilitation. This study explored quantitative associations among religious faith, self-efficacy, and life satisfaction in 40 female stroke patients and explored the influence of religion within stroke rehabilitation through qualitative interviews with 12 health professionals. The quantitative measure of religious faith did not relate to life satisfaction or self-efficacy in stroke patients. However, the health professionals described religious coping as influencing adaptation post-stroke.Fatalistic beliefs were thought to have mixed influences on rehabilitation. Measuring religious faith among Muslims through a standardized scale is debated. The qualitative accounts suggest that religious beliefs need to be acknowledged in stroke rehabilitation in Kuwait.

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“…This is what Conti and Pudney (2011) call "put on a good show for the visitor" effect in F2F interviews. The social interaction of the respondent with the interviewer has been documented to lead to more socially desirable responses (Tourangeau and Smith, 1996;Presser and Stinson, 1998;Tourangeau and Yan, 2007), though others have found limited effects of a social desirability bias (Fowler et al, 1999;Kaplan et al, 2001). On the other hand, an interviewer can "increase response and item response rates, maintain motivation with longer questionnaires, probe for responses, clarify ambiguous questions, help respondents with enlarged show-cards of response choice options, use memory jogging techniques for aiding recall of events and behaviour, and control the order of the questions" (Bowling, 2005) and assure respondents on the confidentiality of their data (Nandi and Platt, 2011).…”

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Happy Talk: Mode of Administration Effects on Subjective Well-Being

Dolan

Kavetsos

2015

J Happiness Stud

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There is increasing interest in subjective well-being (SWB) both in academic and policy circles. As a result, considerable research efforts are now being directed at the validity and reliability of SWB measures. This study examines how SWB reports differ by survey mode. Using data from the April 2011-March 2012 Annual Population Survey in the UK we find that individuals consistently report higher SWB over the phone compared to face-to-face interviews. We also show that the determinants of SWB differ significantly by mode, with life circumstances tending to matter more in face-to-face interviews. These results have substantial implications for research and policy purposes. JEL classification: D60, I30

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Data Collection Mode and Social Desirability Bias in Self-Reported Religious Attendance

Cited by 364 publications

References 10 publications

Sensitive questions in surveys.

Sensitive questions in surveys.

Religious Faith and Psychosocial Adaptation among Stroke Patients in Kuwait: A Mixed Method Study

Happy Talk: Mode of Administration Effects on Subjective Well-Being

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