Web Survey Bibliography
Title Online-replication of results from evolutionary psychology research – sex differences in sexual jealousy in imagined scenarios of sexual vs. emotional mate infidelity
Author Voracek, M., Stieger, S., Gindl, A.
Year 1999
Access date 18.11.2004
Abstract The results from the first online research project conducted at the Department of Psychology, University of Vienna (11/1998), are presented. At the same time to our knowledge this study is the first online-study in the field of evolutionary psychology. A specific hypothesis from evolutionary psychology states the following: men, when confronted with imagined scenarios of mate infidelity in relationships, should react more likely with sexual jealousy or should experience sexual infidelity more distressing, respectively (for reasons of paternity confidence), whereas women should react more likely with emotional jealousy or should experience emotional infidelity more distressing, respectively (for reasons of ressource interests). In recent years, this hypothesis has been tested extensively and cross-culturally in studies using paper-pencil questionnaires and using campus samples mainly from the United States, China, the Netherlands, and Germany. The (explorative) objective of the present study was, whether (or to what extent, respectively) the results from these prior investigations – sex differences in sexual jealousy – could be replicated, when using a sample from a comparable underlying population, but for the first time conducting such a study within the framework of an internet-based questionnaire. Using an online-questionnaire should result in a selfselection bias for study participation more pronounced, but at the same time in a more distal investigator-participant-interaction compared to a paper-pencil questionnaire survey. For this online-replication a short HTML-form was generated, which comprised German translations of the items – so-called scenarios of jealousy – used by Buss et al. (1992) and Harris & Christenfeld (1996). The online-questionnaire was made accessible under address www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a9425748/fragebogen/. A large simple random sample (n=4,285) from the population of students at the University of Vienna, which had Internet and Internet Services access (including an e-mail account) at the time of the investigation (approx. 36,000 out of a total of approx. 95,000 students at this university) was contacted via e-mail, was referred to the URL of the online-questionnaire, and was asked for study participation. 239 of the questionnaires received were included for data-analysis, which equals a participation rate of 5.6%. The main results of this online-study are compared with published results from research in evolutionary psychology, and are discussed particularly with regard to important features of online-research validity (quality of data): (1) participation rate (in connection with internet utilization behavior and participation motivation of the population under study); (2) sample characteristics (sex, age, and studies, as stated by the participants) with regard to sample epresentativeness; (3) portion of excluded responses (multiple, non-plausible, and „joke“ answers). Additionally, some further details relevant for online-research are discussed: (4) course of the response characteristic of the sample; (5) some sporadic negative responses (complaint mails) and handling of these by the investigators; (6) potential effects of the specific form of distal interaction (which is inherent for online-research design) upon openness and unbiasedness of the questionnaire data.
Year of publication1999
Bibliographic typeBook section
Web survey bibliography - 1999 (45)
- Making Web research pay off: A research manager roundup; 1999; Smith, P.
- Back to the Future of Online Polling; 1999; Taylor, H., Terhanian, G., Mitofsky, W. J.
- Nonresponse in Web Surveys; 1999; Vehovar, V.
- Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity; 1999; Nielsen, J.
- The Design of an International Real Time Data Collection System: SADC-HYCOS; 1999; Andrews, A. J., Pieyns, S., Servat, E.
- Survey research; 1999; Krosnick, J. A.
- Factors affecting measurement stability. More is not necessarily better: Effects of number of items...; 1999; Thomas, R. K.
- Calibration as a standard method for treatment of nonresponse; 1999; Lundstrom, S., Sarndal, C.-E.
- Question Appraisal System - QAS-99 ; 1999; Willis, G. B., Lessler, J. T.
- Current Internet science - trends, techniques, results. ; 1999; Reips, U.-D., Batinic, B., Bandilla, W., Bosnjak, M., Graef, L., Moser, K., Werner, A.
- Internet Systems for Evaluation Research; 1999; Watt, J. H.
- 'Once would be enough': some reflections on the issue of safety for lone researchers ; 1999; Kenyon, E., Hawker, S.
- The Effect of Incentives on Response Rates in Interviewer-Mediated Surveys; 1999; Singer, E., van Hoewyk, J., Gebler, N., Raghunathan, T., McGonagle, K.
- Measuring the Flow Construct in Online Environments: A Structural Modeling Approach; 1999; Novak, T. P., Hoffman, D. L., Yung, Y.-F.
- Internet Survey Data Collection: The Case Of Webqual; 1999; Deans, K. R., Adam, S.
- Drop-out caused by JavaScript: "I could not have expected this to happen " - A Web experiment...; 1999; Reips, U.-D., Schwarz, S.
- Can Internet Polling Work? Strategies for Conducting Public Opinion Surveys Online; 1999; Flemming, G., Sonner, M.
- Development of a system for on-line evaluation of teaching; 1999; Marsh, J., Jones, Ja., Boehnker, D. N., Mavis, K.
- Improving Electronic Data Collection and Dissemination Through Usability Testing; 1999; Murphy, E. D., Marquis, K., Hoffman, R., Saner, L., Tedesco, H., Harris, C.
- Internet Data Collection at the U.S. Census Bureau; 1999; Kanarek, H., Sedivi, B.
- The internet ... A possible research tool?; 1999; Senior, C., Smith, Mi.
- Casting a wider net; 1999; Marinelli, J.
- Anatomy of an on-line focus group; 1999; Sweet, C.
- On-line focus groups: Mainstream in the millennium?; 1999; Thorne, G.
- In-home CAPI: a new era in data collection?; 1999; Bos, R.
- Recruiting sources for on-line studies; 1999; Bradford, D. P.
- Research and the Internet: a winning combination; 1999; Clarkson, B.
- Surveying collegiate Net surfers; 1999; Wygant, S., Lindorf, R.
- An empirical comparison of traditional and web-based experimental survey administration: Could it be...; 1999; Frey, B. F.
- Japan Has 18 Million Internet Users; 20 Pct. Tried E-Commerce; 1999; Nikkei NetBusiness
- Principis's Web Survey competent for basic tasks; 1999; Marshall, T.
- Complementary and alternative medicine use by patients with inflammatory bowel disease: An Internet...; 1999; Meddings, J. B., Hilsden, R. J., Verhoef, M. J.
- Computer-Assisted Interviewing: The Design and Application of Survey Software to the Wired Suburb Project...; 1999; Hampton, K. N.
- Pollsters.com; 1999; Mitofsky, W. J.
- Realtime Interviewing Using the World Wide Web; 1999; Chen, Pe., Hilton, S. M.
- Comparing Seven Forms of Online Surveying; 1999; MacElroy, B.
- Designing and implementing Web-based surveys; 1999; Lazar, J., Preece, J.
- Overcoming Methodological Concerns in the Investigation of Online Sexual Activities; 1999; Cooper, A., Scherer, C. R., Mathy, R.
- E-mail surveys: what we've learned thus far; 1999; Schuldt, B. A., Totten, J. W.
- Privacy Issues in Internet Surveys; 1999; Cho, H., LaRose, R.
- Research Methodology: Taming the Cyber Frontier-Techniques for Improving Online Surveys; 1999; Kaye, B. K., Johnson, T. J.
- Surveying Through Cyberspace; 1999; Supowitz, J. A.
- Online Research: Methoden, Anwendungen und Ergebnisse ; 1999; Batinic, B., Bandilla, W., Graef, L., Werner, A.
- Ethical decision making in business: A comparison between New Zealand decision makers and a World Wide...; 1999; Frey, B. F.
- Introductory notes on Web interviewing; 1999; Ahlhauser, B.