Web Survey Bibliography
When asked to disclose personal information to web questionnaires users may choose between various strategies of non-disclosure. An active strategy results in choosing an option like "I don't want to say", if available. Following a passive strategy means leaving the default option (e.g. "Please choose answer here") untouched. Being motivated to use active and passive non-disclosure strategies is assumed to depend on the sensitivity of the questions asked. In the present paper, in three experiments with several thousand participants we investigate how the sensitivity of questions and the design of answer options combine to influence non-disclosure to web-based forms. Type of default selection and location turned out to be of major influence on (non-)response rates to sensitive items. Depending on condition, percentages of participants who non-disclosed ranged from 0 to 34.9%. Despite the large range in non-disclosure, no bias in answers was observed.
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Web Survey Bibliography - Buchanan, T. (22)
- A short self-report measure of problems with executive function suitable for administration via the...; 2010; Buchanan, T., Heffernan, T. M., Parrott, A. C., Ling, J., Rodgers, J., Scholey, A. B.
- WebEXEC: A Short Self-Report Measure of Executive Function Suitable for Administration via the Internet...; 2009; Buchanan, T., Heffernan, T. M., Parrott, A. C., Ling, J., Rodgers, J., Scholey, A. B.
- The impact of privacy concerns on data collection; 2009; Reips, U. -D., Joinson, A. N., Buchanan, T., Schofield Paine, C.
- GPCP: A German Version of the Scale for Online Privacy Concern and Protection for Use on the Internet...; 2009; Oostlander, J., Reips, U. -D., Buchanan, T.
- Internet questionnaires in e-health contexts: Non-response to sensitive items; 2009; Reips, U. -D., Buchanan, T., Joinson, A. N., Paine, C.
- Measuring self-disclosure online: Blurring and non-response to sensitive items in web-based surveys; 2008; Joinson, A. N., Paine, C., Buchanan, T., Reips, U. -D.
- Privacy, Trust and Self-Disclosure to Web-Based Surveys; 2007; Joinson, A. N., Paine, C., Buchanan, T., Reips, U. -D.
- Privacy, Trust, Disclosure and the Internet; 2006; Paine, C., , Buchanan, T., Reips, U. -D.
- 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.
- Privacy and Self disclosure online: Implications for web-surveys; 2005; Paine, C., Joinson, A. N., Buchanan, T., Reips, U. -D.
- Quitting online studies: Effects of design elements and personality on dropout and nonresponse; 2004; Frick, A., Neuhaus, C., Buchanan, T.
- Are online-offline differences in personality test scores due to increased self-disclosure?; 2004; Buchanan, T., Joinson, A. N.
- Patterns of Drug Use and the Influence of Gender on Self-Reports of Memory Ability in Ecstasy Users:...; 2003; Rodgers, J., Buchanan, T., Scholey, A. B., Heffernan, T. M., Ling, J., Parrott, A. C.
- Internet-based Questionnaire Assessment: Appropriate Use in Clinical Contexts; 2003; Buchanan, T.
- Psychometric properties of online self-report memory questionnaires: The EMQ and PMQ; 2002; Buchanan, T., Ali, T., Heffernan, T. M., Ling, J., Parrott, A. C., Rodgers, J., Scholey, A. B.
- Differential effects of Ecstasy and cannabis on self-reports of memory ability: a web-based study; 2001; Rodgers, J., Buchanan, T., Scholey, A. B., Heffernan, T. M., Ling, J., Parrott, A. C.
- Platform-dependent biases in Online Research: Do Mac users really think different?; 2001; Buchanan, T., Reips, U. -D.
- Potential of the Internet for Personality Research; 2000; Buchanan, T.
- Internet research: Self-monitoring and judgments of attractiveness; 2000; Buchanan, T.
- Online Personality Assessment: Equivalence of traditional and WWW personality measures; 1999; Buchanan, T.
- Using the Internet for psychological research: Personality testing on the World Wide Web; 1999; Buchanan, T., Smith, J. L.
- Research on the Internet: Validation of a World-Wide Web mediated personality scale; 1999; Buchanan, T., Smith, J. L.