Web Survey Bibliography
Title Validating Internet research: A test of the psychometric equivalence of Internet and in-person samples
Author Meyerson, P., Tryon, W. W.
Source Behavior Research Methods, Instruments & Computers, 35, 4, pp. 614-621
Year 2003
Database EBSCOhost
Access date 25.05.2004
Abstract This study evaluated the psychometric equivalency of Web-based research. The Sexual Boredom Scale was presented via the World-Wide Web along with five additional scales used to validate it. A subset of 533 participants that matched a previously published sample (Watt & Ewing, 1996) on age, gender, and race was identified. An 8 × 8 correlation matrix from the matched Internet sample was compared via structural equation modeling with a similar 8 × 8 correlation matrix from the previously published study. The Internet and previously published samples were psychometrically equivalent. Coefficient alpha values calculated on the matched Internet sample yielded reliability coefficients almost identical to those for the previously published sample. Factors such as computer administration and uncontrollable administration settings did not appear to affect the results. Demographic data indicated an overrepresentation of males by about 6% and Caucasians by about 13% relative to the U.S. Census (2000). A total of 2,230 participants were obtained in about 8 months without remuneration. These results suggest that data collection on the Web is (1) reliable, (2) valid, (3) reasonably representative, (4) cost effective, and (5) efficient.
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Year of publication2003
Bibliographic typeJournal article
Web Survey Bibliography - Behavior Research Methods, Instruments & Computers (36)
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- Measuring health beliefs on the Internet: A comparison of paper and Internet administrations of the...; 2006; Hewson, C. M., Charlton, J. P.
- Non-equivalence of online and paper-and-pencil psychological tests: The case of the Prospective Memory...; 2005; Buchanan, T., Ali, T., Heffernan, T. M., Ling, J., Parrott, A. C., Rodgers, J., Scholey, A. B.
- Coh-Metrix: Analysis of text on cohesion and language; 2004; Graesser, A., McNamara, D. S., Louwerse, M., Cai, Z.
- Scientific LogAnalyzer: A Web-based tool for analyses of server log files in psychological research; 2004; Reips, U. -D., Stieger, S.
- Express: A Web-based technology to support human and computational experimentation; 2003; Yule, P., Cooper, R.P.
- Validating Internet research: A test of the psychometric equivalence of Internet and in-person samples...; 2003; Meyerson, P., Tryon, W. W.
- Web-based research: Methodological variables' effects on dropout and sample characteristics; 2003; O'Neil, K. M., Penrod, S. D., Bornstein, B. H.
- WEXTOR: A Web-based tool for generating and visualizing experimental designs and procedures; 2002; Reips, U. -D., Neuhaus, C.
- Web-based experiments controlled by JavaScript: An Example from probability learning; 2002; Birnbaum, M. H., Wakcher, S. V.
- A comparison of four computer-based telephone interviewing methods: Getting answers to sensitive questions...; 2002; Corkrey, R., Parkinson, L.
- A comparison of World-Wide Web and paper-and-pencil personality questionnaires; 2002; Pettit, F. A.
- Response rate, speed, and completeness: A comparison of Internet-based and mail surveys; 2002; Truell, A. D., Bartlett, J. E., Alexander, M. W.
- Personality research on the Internet: A comparison of Web-based and traditional instruments in take-...; 2002; Cronk, B. C., West, J. L.
- The Web Experimental Psychology Lab: Five years of data collection on the Internet; 2001; Reips, U. -D.
- User-controlled photographic animations, photograph-based questions, and questionnaires: Three Internet...; 2001; Horswill, M. S., Coster, M. E.
- Methodological variables in Web-based research that may affect results: Sample type, monetary...; 2001; O'Neil, K. M., Penrod, S. D.
- Tell me, what did you see? The stimulus on computers; 2000; Krantz, J. H.
- QUAID: A questionnaire evaluation aid for survey methodologists; 2000; Graesser, A., Wiemer-Hastings, K., Kreuz, R., Wiemer-Hastings, P.
- Internet research: Self-monitoring and judgments of attractiveness; 2000; Buchanan, T.
- SurveyWiz and FactorWiz: JavaScript Web pages that make HTML forms for research on the Internet; 2000; Birnbaum, M. H.
- An investigation into the perception of dominance from schematic faces: A study using the World-Wide...; 1999; Senior, C., Phillips, M.L., Barnes, J., David, A.S.
- Research on the Internet: Validation of a World-Wide Web mediated personality scale; 1999; Buchanan, T., Smith, J. L.
- Social desirability, anonymity, and Internet-based questionnaires; 1999; Joinson, A. N.
- Web-based administration of a personality questionnaire: comparison with traditional methods; 1999; Davis, R. N.
- Tutorial: PERL, a psychologically efficient reformatting language; 1998; Schwartz, A.
- The making of a personality inventory: Help from the WWW; 1998; Pasveer, K. A., Ellard, J.H.
- Operate your own World-Wide Web server; 1997; Hoffman, R., Macdonald, J., Schmidt, W. C.
- Virtual subjects: Using the Internet as an alternative source of subjects and research environment; 1997; Smith M. A., Leigh, B.
- Comparing the results of laboratory and World-Wide Web samples on the determinants of female attractiveness...; 1997; Krantz, J. H., Ballard, J., Scher, J.
- World-Wide Web survey research: Benefits, potential problems, and solutions; 1997; Schmidt, W. C.
- The lost e-mail method: Milgram’s lost-letter technique in the age of the Internet; 1997; Stern, S. E., Faber, J. E.
- World-Wide Web Survey Research Made Easy with WWW Survey Assistant; 1997; Schmidt, W. C.
- CGI scripts: Gateways to World-Wide Web power; 1996; Kieley, J. M.
- Proper methodologies for psychological and sociological studies conducted via the Internet; 1996; Hewson, C. M., Laurent, D., Vogel, C. M.
- Mosaic and the information superhighway. A virtual tiger in your tank; 1995; Levy, C. M.