Questionnaire response bias and face‐to‐face interview sample bias in sexuality research

Catania, Joseph A.; McDermott, Lisa; Pollack, Lance M.

doi:10.1080/00224498609551289

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“…Sexual Self-Disclosure Scale (SSDS; Catania, McDermott, & Pollack, 1986) The 19-item scale measures the degree of threat associated with sexuality questions. The items were rated on a 6-point scale and assess participants' self-reported ease or difficulty with disclosing sexual information in different contexts and interpersonal situations.…”

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Measurement of Sexual Risk Taking Among College Students

2008

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Current measures of sexual risk taking are either too narrowly focused to be used with college students or do not have adequate psychometric properties. The goal of the current study was to develop a broad and psychometrically sound measure of sexual risk taking. A total of 613 undergraduate students (302 men, 311 women) at a mid-sized Midwestern university in the U.S. were surveyed to develop and gather reliability and validity information on a new measure of sexual risk, the Sexual Risk Survey (SRS). The measure was found to be multifactorial with five factors. The measure was found to have good internal consistency and test-retest reliability. The SRS also demonstrated evidence of convergent and concurrent validity by its relationships with reported number of sexual partners and history of infidelity as well as measures of sensation seeking, sexual desire, substance use, sexual excitation and inhibition, and sexual health consequences. Social desirability was not found to be related to sexual risk taking scores and threat of sexual disclosure was only weakly related. An investigation of sex differences revealed that men reported greater intentions to engage in sexual risk behaviors and greater overall sexual risk taking behavior compared to women. The SRS provides researchers with a valid and comprehensive measure of sexual risk taking that can be used to clarify inconsistent findings in the literature and to assess outcome in programs designed to prevent and reduce sexual risk behaviors among college students.

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Measurement of Sexual Risk Taking Among College Students

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“…Sexual information may be especially problematic. It has been suggested that people feel threatened when asked to report on their sexual activities and thus hesitate to reveal their sexual behaviors to others (Bradburn 1983;Catania 1999;Catania et al 1986;Herold & Way 1988). On the other hand, other investigators have found that respondents can be quite forthcoming about their sexual behaviors (Kinsey et al 1948;Kinsey et al 1953;Laumann et al 2004;Laumann et al 1994).…”

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“…At the same time that specificity improves recall, certain types of behavioral specificity may be problematic because of social desirability (Catania 1999;Catania et al 1986;Herold & Way 1988). Considerations of social desirability might have been expected to contribute to a greater discrepancy between global and enumerated estimates for gay/lesbian/bisexual informants than for straight informants.…”

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Partner naming and forgetting: Recall of network members

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2007

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“…Until recently, few studies have investigated the effect of the mode of interview in surveys of self-reported sexual behavior (Catania, McDermott, and Pollack, 1986;Turner et al, 1992Turner et al, , 1995Turner et al, , 1996aTurner et al, , 1996bTurner et al, , 1996cTurner et al, , 1997Turner et al, , 1998 in press). Most of those studies report a mode effect for some but not all sexual behaviors.…”

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Measuring AIDS-Related Behaviors in Older Populations

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Because of a dearth of research on reporting biases in the measurement of HIV-related sexual and drug use behaviors in older populations, it is frequently assumed that methodological findings of research conducted with younger populations will generalize to older respondents. In this study, estimates of the effect of the experimental manipulation of interview mode (interviewer administered vs. self-administered) were derived separately for three age strata: 12 to 49, 50 to 64, and 65+. Results of these analyses indicate that there were a number of noteworthy reversals in which interviewer-administered questioning in the older age strata produced higher esti-mates of the prevalence of substance use or alcohol-related problem behaviors. These results suggest that caution should be exercised in making generalizations from studies of reporting bias for HIVrelated behaviors to older populations.

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Questionnaire response bias and face‐to‐face interview sample bias in sexuality research

Cited by 142 publications

References 12 publications

Measurement of Sexual Risk Taking Among College Students

Measurement of Sexual Risk Taking Among College Students

Partner naming and forgetting: Recall of network members

Measuring AIDS-Related Behaviors in Older Populations

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