2014
DOI: 10.1177/2158244014545964
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The Conscientious Responders Scale

Abstract: This investigation introduces a novel tool for identifying conscientious responders (CRs) and random responders (RRs) in psychological inventory data. The Conscientious Responders Scale (CRS) is a five-item validity measure that uses instructional items to identify responders. Because each item instructs responders exactly how to answer that particular item, each response can be scored as either correct or incorrect. Given the long odds of answering a CRS item correctly by chance alone on a 7-point scale (14.2… Show more

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“…An additional nine were eliminated due to their low CRS scores, which identified them as random responders (i.e., cases with CRS sum score ≤ 3). This constitutes a random responding rate of 7.69% and is consistent with random responding rates found in other undergraduate samples surveyed with the CRS (e.g., Marjanovic, Holden, Struthers, Cribbie, & Greenglass, 2015; Marjanovic et al, 2014) and similar validity measures (see Meade & Craig, 2012). (Note that all statistics and indices were strengthened and improved after the deletion of the nine identified random responders).…”
Section: Methodssupporting
confidence: 86%
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“…An additional nine were eliminated due to their low CRS scores, which identified them as random responders (i.e., cases with CRS sum score ≤ 3). This constitutes a random responding rate of 7.69% and is consistent with random responding rates found in other undergraduate samples surveyed with the CRS (e.g., Marjanovic, Holden, Struthers, Cribbie, & Greenglass, 2015; Marjanovic et al, 2014) and similar validity measures (see Meade & Craig, 2012). (Note that all statistics and indices were strengthened and improved after the deletion of the nine identified random responders).…”
Section: Methodssupporting
confidence: 86%
“…The CRS (Marjanovic et al, 2014) consists of five items that are embedded amongst other items in a questionnaire to identify non-conscientious responders. The items are instructional (e.g., “To respond to this question, please choose option number five, ‘slightly agree’”) and scored as correct (1) or incorrect (0).…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Of these individuals, 6.3% (n = 26) were excluded from the final sample because they did not correctly answer two validity check questions derived from the Conscientious Responders Scale (CRS; e.g., "Choose the first option-"strongly disagree"-in answering this question. "; Marjanovic, Struthers, Cribbie, & Greenglass, 2014). There were no statistically significant differences in age, gender, race, ethnicity, educational attainment, or marital status between those who passed and failed the CRS validity check questions (ps > .05); however, individuals identifying as heterosexual/straight were less likely than those identifying as other sexual orientations to provide valid responses to the CRS questions (χ 2 [5] = 12.075, p = .034).…”
Section: Participantsmentioning
confidence: 90%
“…Heretofore, it has been simpler to just accept the variance-killing effect of random responding than to try to do anything about it. Marjanovic, Struthers, Cribbie, and Greenglass (2014) attempted to remedy the situation by introducing a novel tool for identifying conscientious responders in inventory data: the five-item Conscientious Responders Scale (CRS). Its advantages over traditional random responding scales stem from its use of instructional item content.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%