Web Survey Bibliography
Title Persuasiveness on the Internet: Factors influencing participation in Web survey
Author Zajac, J.
Year 2005
Access date 24.04.2005
Abstract Persuasiveness is one of the crucial factors of social impact. In text-based communication, where social information is limited, persuasiveness is manifested in special way. Due to absence of many non-verbal cues, specific features, such as register, sender attributes (e.g. e-mail address or chatter's nickname) and additional information included in signature are supposed to gain importance. Various social actors, from counselors and social activists through business till swindlers and bluffers, strive to appear credible on the Internet and to persuade something to Internet users. That regards also Web-based research - scientists have to prompt potential respondents to take part in their research.Three specific factors: register of the message (formal vs. very informal), personal e-mail address of the sender (univeristy e-mail vs. free provider) and e-mail signature (long, explaining the aim circumstances of the research vs. short, without any explanation) were examined in experiment. E-mails with a request to fulfill a short online questionnaire were sent to 16000 randomly selected users of one of the biggest Polish free e-mail providers. The Web questionnaire regarded intensity and patterns of Internet usage and demographic variables.920 valid questionnaires were collected (response rate 5.75%). Surprisingly, none of 3 factors had any influence on response rate. Howevwer, respondents turned out to be distinguishable from general populations of portal users and Polish Internet users. The bulk of respondents were core users: young, relatively experienced, using computer and the Internet for at least few hours a day and having high IT skills. Most of respondents fulfilled the questionnaire while being at home, using leased line (not a modem, as majority of Internet users in Poland do) and, although a 2-weeks deadline was given, during 24 hours after the e-mails were sent. These results suggest that features of contact e-mail have no impact on its persuasiveness and on online survey response rates. The latter depend on respondents' patterns of Internet usage, not on the way they are contacted.
Access/Direct link Homepage - conference (abstract)
Year of publication2005
Bibliographic typeConferences, workshops, tutorials, presentations
Web Survey Bibliography - 2005 (418)
- Data Quality Issues in a Multimode Survey; 2005; Wilson, C., Wright, D., Barton, T., Guerino, P.
- Web Survey Methodologies: A Comparison of Survey Accuracy; 2005; Krosnick, J. A., Nie, N., Rivers, D.
- Non-interviews in Mobile Phone Surveys; 2005; Vehovar, V.
- Quality Assessed: Cellular Phone Surveys versus Traditional Telephone Surveys; 2005; Steeh, C. G.
- Testing the Impact of Caller ID Technology on Response Rates in a Mixed Mode Survey; 2005; Trussell, N., Lavrakas, P. J.
- Re-examining Approaches to Achieving High Response Rates on Web-based Surveys of Post-secondary Students...; 2005; Lodato, B. N., Ghadialy, R.
- Qualitative Comparison of Paper and Online Self-Administered Modes; 2005; Grigorian, K. H., Sederstrom, S.
- Evaluating Nonsampling Errors in a Study Comparing Data Collected by Mail and Using the Web; 2005; Lesser, V. M., Newton, L.
- Effectiveness of E-mail and Paper Mail Notifications for Internet Surveys; 2005; Ruggiere, P., Ver Duin, D'Arlene
- Transforming a Paper Survey into a Web-based Survey: Respondent Experiences; 2005; Luyegu, A.
- A Profile of Self-Selecting Web Respondents; 2005; Guerino, P.
- What's Up Doc? Mixing Web and Mail Methods in a Survey of Physicians; 2005; Beebe, T. J., Locke, G. R., Barnes, S. A.
- Predicting Smapled Respondents' Likelihood to Cooperate in a Mail Survey: Part III; 2005; Burks, A. T., Lavrakas, P. J., Bennett, M.
- Sound Bytes: Capturing Audio in Survey Interviews; 2005; Hansen, S. E., Krysan, M., Couper, M. P.
- (Inter) Net Gain? Experiments to Increase Web-Based Response; 2005; Tourkin, S., Cox, S., Parmer, R., Zukerberg, A.
- Does Type of Pre-Notification Affect Web Survey Response Rates?; 2005; Harmon, M., Westin, E., Levin, K.
- Did You Get The Message? Using E-Mail and SMS for Prenotification in Web Surveys; 2005; Neubarth, W., Bosnjak, M., Bandilla, W., Couper, M. P., Kaczmirek, L.
- Analysis of Break-off Patterns in Web Surveys; 2005; Ahsan, S., Broach, R. J.
- The Effect of Incentives on Two Physician Mail Surveys: A Response Rate Comparison; 2005; Christian, J.
- Value and Timing Strategies in Prize Draws: A Further Examination of the Immediacy Effect in Web Surveys...; 2005; Tuten, T. L., Galesic, M., Bosnjak, M.
- Comparative Analyses of Parallel Paper, Phone, and Web Surveys With and Without Incentives: What Differences...; 2005; Olsen, D., Call, V., Wygant, S.
- Characteristics Related to Cell Phone Status: Why Generation Y Should be Targeted; 2005; Hancock, L.
- The Labelling Game: A Conceptual Exploration of Deviance on the Internet; 2005; Denegri-Knott, J., Taylor, J.
- Mode Effects for Hybrid Telephone/Internet Surveys and Reaching Cellphone-Only Households; 2005; Kulp, D., Herrmann, M., Dutwin, D., Lavine, S.
- In Search of Equivalency across Modes: Experimental Results Comparing Alternative Question Formats for...; 2005; Christian, L. M., Dillman, D. A., Smyth, J. D.
- Survey Mode Effects: Comparison between Telephone and Web; 2005; Speizer, H., Baker, R. P., Schneider, K.
- How Does Social Desirability Affect Responses?: Differences in Telephone and Online Surveys; 2005; Taylor, H., Krane, D., Thomas, R. K.
- Young Cell Phone Users and Voting Behavior in Georgia in 2004; 2005; Bason, J. J.
- Comparing Check-All and Forced-Choice Question Formats in Web Surveys: The Role of Satisficing, Depth...; 2005; Smyth, J. D., Dillman, D. A., Christian, L. M., Stern, M. J.Chou, C.; de Rouvray, C.Christianson DeMay...
- Improving Web Based Intercept Surveys: A Framework For The Active User Sampling; 2005; Kaczmirek, L., Neubarth, W.
- Comparing the Knowledge Networks Web-Enabled Panel and the In-Person 2002 General Social Survey: Experiments...; 2005; Smith, T. W., Li, R. J., Pulliam, P.
- Data Collection Mode Effects Controlling for Sample Origins in a Panel Study: Telephone versus Internet...; 2005; Dennis, J. M., Chatt, C.Li, R. J.; de Rouvray, C.Pulliam, P.; de Rouvray, C.
- Translucent is the mind of the web user; 2005; Britschgi, M.
- Comparing response distributions of offline and online data collection methods; 2005; Schillewaert, N., Meulemeester, P.
- Online focus groups; 2005; Reid, D. J., Reid, F. J. M.
- A Typology of Real-Time Validations in Web-Based Surveys; 2005; Peytchev, A., Crawford, S. D.
- Pediatric Gastroenterology Workforce Survey, 2003-2004; 2005; Crandall, W., Barnard, J., Cohen, M., Colletti, R., Ferry, G., Harnsberger, J., Hart, M., Rosenthal,...
- Interaction in cyberspace: an online focus group; 2005; Kenny, A. J.
- The value of online surveys; 2005; Evans, J. R., Mathur, A.
- Improving Customer Experience via Text Mining; 2005; Lakshminarayan, C., Yu, Q., Benson, A.
- An Empirical Evaluation of Three Web Survey Design Principles; 2005; Healey, B., MacPherson, T., Kuijten, B.
- In my opinion; 2005; Haley, F.
- Studying marriage and family therapists in the 21st century: Methodological and technological issues; 2005; Northey, N. F. Jr.
- Online has all the answers; 2005; Buxton, P.
- Survey Says...Or Does It? Fun with Statistics; 2005; Crawford, W.
- Websurveyor debuts free web polling tool; 2005; Anonymous
- FIRM: FIRM to release a free and easy-to-use questionnaire designer; 2005; Anonymous
- Online Data Collection: Strategies for Research; 2005; Granello, D. H., Wheaton, J. E.
- Eight tips offer best practices for online MR; 2005; Kottler, R. E.
- Get the most from Net-based panel research; 2005; Philpott, G.