The Individual Consistency of Acquiescence and Extreme Response Style in Self-Report Questionnaires

Applied Psychological Measurement - Tập 34 Số 2 - Trang 105-121 - 2010
Bert Weijters1, Maggie Geuens2, Niels Schillewaert1
1Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School, Belgium
2Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School, Belgium Ghent University, Belgium

Tóm tắt

The severity of bias in respondents’ self-reports due to acquiescence response style (ARS) and extreme response style (ERS) depends strongly on how consistent these response styles are over the course of a questionnaire. In the literature, different alternative hypotheses on response style (in)consistency circulate. Therefore, nine alternative models are derived and fitted to secondary and primary data. It is found that response styles are best modeled as a tau-equivalent factor complemented with a time-invariant autoregressive effect. This means that ARS and ERS are largely but not completely consistent over the course of a questionnaire, a finding that has important implications for response style measurement and correction.

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Applied Psychological Measurement

Tập 34 Số 2

105-121

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