Comparing questions with agree/disagree response options to questions with construct-specific response options

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• dc.contributor.author Saris, Willem E.
• dc.contributor.author Revilla, Melanie
• dc.contributor.author Krosnick, Jon A.
• dc.contributor.author Shaeffer, Eric M.
• dc.date.accessioned 2020-02-10T11:57:26Z
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• dc.date.issued 2010
• dc.description.abstract Although Agree/Disagree (A/D) rating scales are hugely popular in the social sciences, a large body of research conducted during more than five decades has documented the bias that results from acquiescence in responses to these items. This may be a reason to prefer questions with Item Specific (IS) response options, but remarkably little research has explored whether responses to A/D rating scale questions are indeed of lower quality than responses to questions with IS response options. Using a research design that combines the advantages of a random assignment between-subjects experiment and the multitrait-multimethod approach in the context of representative sample surveys, we found that responses to A/D rating scale questions indeed had much lower quality than responses to comparable questions offering IS response options. These results attest to the superiority of questions with IS response options.
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• dc.identifier.citation Saris WE, Revilla M, Krosnick JA, Shaeffer EM. Comparing questions with agree/disagree response options to questions with construct-specific response options. Survey Research Methods. 2010;4(1):61-79. DOI: 10.18148/srm/2010.v4i1.2682
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.18148/srm/2010.v4i1.2682
• dc.identifier.issn 1864-3361
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/43541
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher European Survey Research Association
• dc.relation.ispartof Survey Research Methods. 2010;4(1):61-79
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• dc.subject.keyword Quality of Agree/disagree scales
• dc.subject.keyword Item specific scales
• dc.subject.keyword Split ballot MTMM
• dc.title Comparing questions with agree/disagree response options to questions with construct-specific response options
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