Feasibility of the Factorial Survey Method in Aging Research

Teti, Andrea; Groß, Christiane; Knoll, Nina; Blüher, Stefan

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“…Sauer et al (2011) show that even 20 or more vignettes are manageable by respondents without any decrease in answer consistency. Teti et al (2016) show no effect of age on answer consistency, even for respondents aged 70 and older with 10 vignettes.…”

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Attitudes towards inheritance taxation – results from a survey experiment

2016

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Inheritance taxation divides public opinion and is among the most unpopular taxes in many countries, although only a minority of people have to pay it. Using a survey experiment with vignettes on a sample of German citizens (N=479), we examine attitudes towards inheritance taxation. Our results reveal several relevant dimensions for a proposed fair inheritance tax rate (PITR): The PITR decreases with a close relationship between testator and heir and when the asset is a family-occupied house or family enterprise compared with a "lump sum". It increases with the value of bequest and income of the heir representing equity considerations. Respondents advocate higher tax rates to reduce fiscal budget deficits. Respondents with a strong family orientation propose a low inheritance tax rate.

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2016

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“…Multiple vignettes per respondent factorial surveys allow ex post to distinguish between respondents who reduce the cognitive costs of completing the cognitive steps involved in answering questions (a) by reducing the number of vignette dimensions considered in their subjective reference frame right from the beginning of the factorial survey ( consequent dimension reduction ) 9 , (b) by changing their subjective reference frame from vignette to vignette ( partial dimension reduction ), and (c) by paying less attention on responding consistently to the vignette dimensions presented on the multiple vignettes to them ( response inconsistency ; cf. also Auspurg et al 2009; Sauer et al 2011; Teti et al 2016). 10…”

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“…For measuring response inconsistency, studies in the context of factorial surveys (cf., e.g., Sauer et al 2011; Teti et al 2016) focused on the unexplained variance of estimation models regarding respondents’ (valid) answers to vignettes. We followed the operationalization applied by Sauer et al (2011:94).…”

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“…Although more recently factorial surveys have become increasingly popular among social scientists, only a small number of the published studies based on population or college samples (Auspurg and Hinz 2015:2) examined the effect of methodological issues of design complexity on respondents’ cognitive load for different administration modes (Auspurg, Hinz, and Liebig 2009; Auspurg and Jäckle 2017; Sauer et al 2011; Teti et al 2016). Overall, these studies support the use of the factorial survey by showing that manifestations of cognitive overburden—such as response inconsistencies, fade-out of vignette dimensions, fatigue effects, and vignette dimension order effects—can be avoided by choosing an appropriate level of design complexity.…”

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The Factorial Survey: The Impact of the Presentation Format of Vignettes on Answer Behavior and Processing Time

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Giza³

2019

Sociological Methods & Research

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The factorial survey is an experimental design in which the researcher constructs varying descriptions of situations or individual persons (vignettes), which will be judged by respondents with regard to a particular aspect. Some researchers present vignettes in text format as short stories, others present the central information of vignettes in a tabular format. To date, only a few sentences have been published, by Auspurg and Hinz, on the impact of the presentation format (text vs. table) on the answer behavior of students. Empirically, no differences were found between either format. Based on an Internet experiment conducted with a quota sample, we find evidence that ordinary tabular formats outperform text vignettes in terms of total vignette nonresponse but not when it comes to processing time. The former result especially applies in the case of less well-educated people. We further find that tabular format does not perform worse than text format regarding response inconsistency.

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“…Vignette research methods have been widely used to study a diverse set of research issues, including: clinical decision-making (Evans, Roberts, Keeley, Blossom, Amaro, Garcia, Stough, Canter, Robles, and Reed, 2014), medical ethics (Fitzgerald and Hurst, 2017), nurse decision-making (Kada, 2017, ) factorial survey design (Teti, Gross, Knoll, and Bluher, 2016), policy politics (Remler and Van Ryzin, 2015) public health (Guest and Namey, 2014) philosophy and law (Zamir and Teichman, 2014) topics in social psychology (Stolte, 1994;Stolte and Fender, 2007) perceptions of Alzheimer's disease (Berry, Williams, Thomas, and Blair, 2015) and judgments of filial responsibility (Santoro, Van Liew, Holloway, McKinnon, Little, and Cronan, 2016), among many other empirical issues.…”

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Measurement and Social Desirability Response Bias in Experimental Vignette Resarch: a Test of Fazio’s Mode Theory

Stolte¹

2021

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BACKGROUND. Experimental vignette research methods have been used to study a diverse range of theoretical and practical issues. Vignettes are designed to create hypothetical cultural/normative contexts for the study of variation in self-reported attitudes. A key problem in such research, however, is potential social desirability response bias. METHOD. A vignette experimental test of an hypothesis derived from a dual-process theory (the MODE framework initially developed by Fazio) linking explicit vs. implicit self-reported attitude measurement and social desirability response bias is reported here. RESULTS. The data show that measuring the social approval of a central vignette character explicitly results in greater social desirability responding than measuring such approval implicitly, supporting MODE theory. CONCLUSIONS. Vignette research methodologies provide a rich, flexible toolkit for studying many important social psychological topics, including issues of inequality and equity. However, researchers can and should design a measurement strategy that carefully manages inferences drawn in light of conditions likely to produce social desirability response bias.

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Feasibility of the Factorial Survey Method in Aging Research

Abstract: FS method can, under certain methodological conditions, be used among older adults especially when the topic of the survey is relevant to their daily lives.

Cited by 8 publications

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Attitudes towards inheritance taxation – results from a survey experiment

Attitudes towards inheritance taxation – results from a survey experiment

The Factorial Survey: The Impact of the Presentation Format of Vignettes on Answer Behavior and Processing Time

Measurement and Social Desirability Response Bias in Experimental Vignette Resarch: a Test of Fazio’s Mode Theory

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