Timidity as a Response Style to Psychological Questionnaires

Hurley, John R.

doi:10.1080/00223989809599159

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“…Although the raw acceptability scores of PQs with one wh-phrase and EQs with two wh-phrases (M = 5.15 and M = 4.72, respectively) are moderate on a 7-point scale, it is important to note that the mean score of the five grammatical controls is only 5.9. This is most likely due to a mild response style on the part of the participants that prompted them to avoid the extremes of the scale in favor of mid-range responses (Hurley, 1998).…”

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Covert movement in English probing wh-questions

Nguyen

Legendre

2020

Proc Ling Soc Amer

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Besides fronted information-seeking questions, English also allows for two types of wh-in-situ ones: echo questions, which are used to request a repetition or a clarification of a previous utterance, and probing questions, which are often used in quiz shows, classroom settings, and child-directed speech to “prompt” the addressee for an answer. An acceptability judgment task shows that PQs with multiple wh-phrases get a significantly lower acceptability score than echo questions with multiple wh-phrases despite their similarity in surface structure, which suggests a syntactic difference below the surface. Independent syntactic evidence confirms the result and further suggests that while echo questions involve no syntactic movement (Dayal, 1996), probing questions involve covert wh-movement.

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Section: Materials and Proceduresmentioning

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Covert movement in English probing wh-questions

Nguyen

Legendre

2020

Proc Ling Soc Amer

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“…Other problematic response-style biases, such as acquiescence, courtesy, extreme response, personality-trait and cultural (Heide & Grønhaug 1982;Bachman & O'Malley 1984;Greenleaf 1992aGreenleaf , 1992bMathews & Diamantopoulos 1995;Yates et al . 1997;Hurley 1998;Baumgartner & Steenkamp 2001;Dolnicar & Grün 2007), may cause an increase in outlier response patterns .…”

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Adjusting Self-Reported Attitudinal Data for Mischievous Respondents

Hyman

Sierra

2012

International Journal of Market Research

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For various reasons, survey participants may submit phony self-reports meant to avoid researcher skepticism. Although casewise deletion of subtly suspicious attitude data is not standard practice, marketing research might improve if these bogus cases were purged before substantive data analyses. After suggesting reasons for a new category of p r o b l e m a t i c s u r v e y p a r t i c i p a n t -t h e mischievous respondent-and reviewing the related response bias, faking, inattentive respondent, and outlier literatures, an initial algorithm for purging likely candidates from polychotomous attitudinal data sets is posited. Applying this algorithm to four data sets collected for other purposes reveals that removing a small fraction of subtly suspicious cases generally failed to improve the variance explained and factor loadings in EFA and CFA. However, removing such cases reduced EFA cross loadings and improved CFA model fit.

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“…The discussion about offering a middle response category may also extend to the validity of a measurement model. Hurley (1998) has argued that a mild response style can be regarded as the counterpart of the extreme response style. A mild response style implies a tendency to use the middle categories, while avoiding the extremes of a scale.…”

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Exploring the effect of a middle response category on response style in attitude measurement

Moors

2007

Qual Quant

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In this research we focus on the link between response style behaviour in answering rating data such as Likert scales and the number of response categories that is offered. In a split-ballot experiment two versions of a questionnaire were randomly administered. The questionnaires only differed in the number of response categories, i.e. 5 vs. 6 categories. In both samples a latent-class confirmatory factor analysis revealed an extreme response style factor. The 6-response categories version, however, revealed the more consistent set of effects. As far as the content latent-class factors, i.e. familistic values and ethnocentrism, are concerned, results were fairly similar. However, a somewhat deviant pattern regarding the familistic values items in the 6-response categories version suggested that this set of items is less homogeneous than the set of ethnocentric items. The effect of gender, age and education was also tested and revealed similarities as well as differences between the two samples.

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Timidity as a Response Style to Psychological Questionnaires

Cited by 20 publications

References 13 publications

Covert movement in English probing wh-questions

Covert movement in English probing wh-questions

Adjusting Self-Reported Attitudinal Data for Mischievous Respondents

Exploring the effect of a middle response category on response style in attitude measurement

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