Web Survey Bibliography
The aim of the present study was to examine the role of age (respectively cohort) in socially desirable responding (SDR) in online questionnaires. SDR is a potential source of bias in surveys, but there are only very few studies on SDR online. Our study is the first attempt to investigate the age dependency of SDR online - an influence that has been found in offline studies. Our experiment was also designed to investigate how age would interact with the factors anonymity, financial incentives and "product fairness" in its influence on SDR online. To assess SDR, an online version of the Social Desirability Scale-17 (Stöber, 1999, 2001) was employed. 1221 people participated in the survey. From February 2001 to October 2001 the study was linked in the Web Experimental Psychology Lab and on nine other Web sites. The result showed that intensity of SDR increased with age (F (6,755) = 13.042, p < 0.01). This result confirms the previously reported correlation between age and SDR (Stöber, 2001) also for online surveying. SDR-17 online showed a satisfying reliability (Cronbach-Alpha =.71). Implications from the results for online research and online surveying will be discussed. This study builds on a line of research first presented at G.O.R. 01.
Die vorgestellte Untersuchung hatte primär zum Ziel, den Einfluss der sozialen Erwünschtheit in einem Online-Experiment in Abhängigkeit vom Lebensalter beziehungsweise der Kohorte zu untersuchen. Soziale Erwünschtheitstendenzen sind eine mögliche Fehlerquelle für verzerrte Resultate in Befragungen. Es gibt bisher nur wenige Untersuchungen dazu, wie sich soziale Erwünschtheitstendenzen in Online-Untersuchungen auswirken. Die von uns durchgeführte Studie ist unseres Wissens der erste Versuch, die aus der Offline-Forschung bekannte Abhängigkeit dieses Einflusses vom Alter der Befragten online nachzuweisen. Das Untersuchungsdesign war so angelegt, dass auch der Einfluss weiterer Faktoren gemessen werden konnte, die möglicherweise eine Auswirkung auf soziale Erwünschtheitstendenzen haben: Anonymität, Incentives, Produktfairness. Die soziale Erwünschtheit wurde mittels Sozialer Erwünschtheits-Skala-17 (SES-17, Stöber, 1999) gemessen. Es nahmen 1221 Teilnehmer vollständig an der Befragung teil. Diese war vom 1.2.01 bis zum 8.10.01 im Web-Labor für Experimentelle Psychologie und auf neun weiteren Web-Sites verlinkt. Es zeigte sich, dass der Einfluss sozialer Erwünschtheit im Mittel mit dem Alter signifikant steigt (F (6,755) = 13.042, p < 0.01). Dies bestätigt auch den offline erhobenen Zusammenhang von Alter und Sozialer Erwünschtsheitswerte (Stöber, 1999) bei Online-Erhebungen. Mit dieser Untersuchung konnte zusätzlich gezeigt werden, dass der SES-17 auch online ein reliables Messinstrument ist (Cronbach-Alpha: =.71). Konsequenzen dieser Ergebnisse für die Online-Forschung und die Online-Befragungspraxis werden diskutiert. Dieser Beitrag knüpft an Ergebnisse an, die auf der G.O.R. 01 vorgestellt wurden.
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- Solicitation by e-Mail and solicitor's status: A field study of social research influence on the...; 2002; Gueguen, N., Jacob, C.
- Trends in marketing research and their impact on survey research sampling; 2002; Anich, B.
- Standards questionnaire format; 2002
- Psychological reactions to terrorist attacks. Findings from the national study of American's reactions...; 2002; Thalji, L., Schlenger, W. E., Caddell, J. M., Ebert, L., Jordan, B. K., Rourke, K. M., Willson, D.,...
- Predicting the future of consumer panels; 2002; Wansink, B., Sudman, S.
- New approaches to assessing opinion: The prospects for electronic mail surveys; 2002; Best, S. J., Krueger, B. S.
- More than a thousand words? Visual cues and visual knowledge; 2002; Prior, M.
- E-Research: Ethics, security, design, and control in psychological research on the Internet; 2002; Banaji, M., Greenwald, A., Nosek, B.
- Demand characteristics in the laboratory and the clinic: Conversations and collaborations with subjects...; 2002; Kihlstrom, J. F.
- Bracketing effects in categorized survey questions and the measurement of economic quantities; 2002; Winter, J.
- A D-minus for computer exams; 2002; Mayfield, K.
- The use of incentives to reduce nonresponse household surveys; 2002; Singer, E.
- Ethnical guidelines for internet research; 2002
- WEXTOR: A Web-based tool for generating and visualizing experimental designs and procedures; 2002; Reips, U.-D., Neuhaus, C.
- WeXtor 2.5: Develop, manage, and visualize experimental designs and procedures; 2002; Reips, U.-D., Blumer, T., Neuhaus, C.
- Studying hate crime with the Internet: What makes racist advocate racial violence?; 2002; Glaser, J., Dixit, J., Green, D. P.
- Cognitive processes when answering online questionnaires; 2002; Fuchs, M.
- Using client side paradata to evaluate respondent behavior in Web surveys; 2002; Heerwegh, D.
- Doec propensity score weighting work for Web Surveys; 2002; Forsman, G., Varedian, M.
- Visual design issues in Web surveys; 2002; Couper, M. P.
- Results from cognitive interviews of nsf earned doctorate Web survey; 2002; Altheimer, I., Dillman, D. A.
- Conducting Survey Research Through an Enhanced Online Web Survey Procedure ; 2002; Theuri, P. M., Turner, L. D.
- Community views on crime and policing: Survey mode effects on bias in community surveys; 2002; Hennigan, K. M., Maxson, C. L., Sloane, D., Ranney, M.
- From Paper-and-Pencil to Screen-and-Keyboard: An Empirical Assessment of Equivalence Issues in Internet...; 2002; Deutskens, E., de Ruyter, K., Wetzels, M.
- Survey of Doctors' Experience of Patients Using the Internet; 2002; Potts, H. W. W., Wyatt, J. C., Pagerey, P. D.
- Libraries and desktop storage options: results of a Web-based survey; 2002; Hendricks, A., Wang, Ji.
- The local/global decision in Internet research; 2002; Crawford, S. D., Jones, S., Rowen, C.
- Hard Choices, Easy Answers: Values, Information, and American Public Opinion; 2002; Alvarez, M. R., Brehm, J.
- Evaluation of Web Survey Data Collection Systems; 2002; Crawford, S. D.
- Online surveys with simple random samples for large populations; 2002; Kreuels, B.
- Sampling problems in research on personal Homepages; 2002; Marcus, B., Machilek, F., Schuetz, A., Kilian, C.
- Selecting a consumer panel service; 2002; Sudman, S., Wansink, B.
- Compare and contrast; 2002; Kindig, L.
- Software Review: CAVI from OpinionOne; 2002; Macer, T.
- Supplier Side: Survey programming integration; 2002; Mitrano, M.
- Humbug, science, survey research; 2002; Litman, J.
- Drawing a few from many; 2002; Fitzgerald, A.
- If given the choice; 2002; Allison, J., O'Konis, C.
- At my own pace in my own place; 2002; Downes-Le Guin, T.
- Privacy, please; 2002; Mack, B.
- My opinion counts; 2002; Solomon, M. B.
- Multi-mode research dos and don'ts; 2002; Hogg, A.
- Qualitatively Speaking: Online focus groups...here today, not gone tomorrow; 2002; Yoffie, A. J.
- Net research suffers due to failed promise; 2002; Tortorello, N. J.
- Social desirability and self-disclosure online: Integrating media effects with user characteristics; 2002
- Social desirable responding and age on the Internet: older participants in online studies show a higher...; 2002; Reips, U.-D., Stoeber, J., Hahn, A.
- Time Measurement And Pre-testing In On-line-Questionnaires; 2002; Mueller, J., Reimer, M.
- Statistical Data Validation in Web Instruments:An Empirical Study; 2002; Peytchev, A., Petrova, E. A.
- Attitudes of Business Faculty Towards Two Methods of Collecting Teaching Evaluations: Paper vs. Online...; 2002; Dommeyer, C. J., Baum, P., Chapman, K. S., Hanna, R. W.
- Introduction: Psychology and the Internet; 2002; Taylor, J.