Response style behavior: Question format dependent or personal style?

Quality and Quantity

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 193-211

  Kieruj, Natalia D ^a   Moors, Guy ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acquiescence response style; Attitude measurement; Extreme response style; Format effects; Latent class factor analysis; Personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872604235     PISSN: 00335177     EISSN: 15737845     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11135-011-9511-4     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. Austin E. J., Deary I. J. and Egan V. (2006). Individual differences in response scale use: mixed Rasch modelling of responses to NEO-FFI items. Pers. Individ. Differ. 40: 1235-1245.
2. Billiet J. B. and Davidov E. (2008). Testing the stability of an acquiescence style factor behind two interrelated substantive variables in a panel design. Sociol. Methods Res. 36: 542-562.
3. Billiet J. B. and McClendon M. J. (2000). Modelling acquiescence in measurement models for two balanced sets of items. Struct. Equ. Model. 7: 608-628.
4. Bogner F. X. and Wiseman M. (1999). Towards measuring adolescent environmental perception. Eur. Psychol. 4: 139-151.
5. Bolt D. M. and Johnson T. R. (2009). Addressing score bias and differential item functioning due to individual differences in response style. Appl. Psychol. Meas. 33: 335-352.
6. Chen C., Lee S.-y. and Stevenson H. W. (1995). Response style and cross-cultural comparisons of rating scales among East Asian and North American students. Psychol. Sci. 6: 170-175.
7. Cheung G. W. and Rensvold R. B. (2000). Assessing extreme and acquiescence response sets in cross-cultural research using structural equations modeling. J. Cross-Cult. Psychol. 31: 187-212.
8. Couch A. and Keniston K. (1960). Yeasayers and naysayers: agreeing response set as a personality variable. J. Abnorm. Soc. Psychol. 60: 151-174.
9. De Jong M. G., Steenkamp J.-B. E. M., Fox J.-P. and Baumgartner H. (2008). Using item response theory to measure extreme response style in marketing research: a global investigation. J. Mark. Res. 45: 104-115.
10. Diamantopoulos A., Reynolds N. L. and Simintiras A. C. (2006). The impact of response styles on the stability of cross-national comparisons. J. Bus. Res. 59: 925-935.
11. DiStefano C. and Motl R. W. (2009). Personality correlates of method effects due to negatively worded items on the Rosenberg self-esteem scale. Pers. Individ. Differ. 46: 309-313.
12. Dolcinar S. and Grün B. (2007). Analytical robustness in cross-cultural comparisons. Int. J. Cult Tour. Hosp. Res. 1: 140-160.
13. Dolcinar S. and Grün B. (2009). Response style contamination of student evaluation data. J. Mark. Educ. 31: 160-172.
14. Gibbons J. L., Zellner J. A. and Rudek D. J. (1999). Effects of language and meaningfulness on the use of extreme response style by Spanish-English bilinguals. Cross-Cult. Res. 33: 369-381.
15. Greenleaf E. A. (1992). Measuring extreme response style. Public Opin. Q. 56: 328-351.
16. Hamilton D. L. (1968). Personality attributes associated with extreme response style. Psychol. Bull. 69: 192-203.
17. Harzing A.-W. (2006). Response styles in cross-national survey research: a 26-country study. Int. J. Cross-Cult. Manag. 6: 243-266.
18. Heide M. and Grønhaug K. (1992). The impact of response styles in surveys: a simulation study. J. Mark. Res. Soc. 34: 215-230.
19. Hui C. H. and Triandis H. C. (1989). Effects of culture and response format on extreme response style. J. Cross-Cult. Psychol. 20: 296-309.
20. Hurley J. R. (1998). Timidity as a response style to psychological questionnaires. J. Psychol. 132: 202-210.
21. Institute of Social and Political Opinion Research (ISPO): 1995 general election study Belgium-Flanders. http://www. data-archive. ac. uk/findingData (1997). Accessed 1 Oct 2009.
22. International Social Survey Programme (ISSP): family and gender roles III. http://www. issp. org/data. shtml (2002). Accessed 1 Oct 2009.
23. Johnson T. R., Kulesa P., Cho Y. I. and Shavitt S. (2005). The relation between culture and response styles: evidence from 19 countries. J. Cross-Cult. Psychol. 36: 264-277.
24. Kieruj, N. D., Moors, G.: Variations in response style behavior by response scale format in attitude research. Int. J. Public Opin. Res. http://ijpor. oxfordjournals. org/content/early/2010/07/23/ijpor. edq001. full. pdf+html (2010). Accessed 31 Aug 2010.
25. Knowles E. S. and Nathan K. T. (1997). Acquiescent responding in self-reports: cognitive style or social concern?. J. Res. Pers. 31: 293-301.
26. Koson D., Kitchen C., Kochen M. and Stodolosky D. (1970). Psychological testing by computer: effect on response bias. Educ. Psychol. Meas. 30: 808-810.
27. Krosnick J. A. (1991). Response strategies for coping with the cognitive demands of attitude measures in surveys. Appl. Cogn. Psychol. 5: 213-236.
28. Lewis N. and Taylor J. (1955). Anxiety and extreme response preferences. Edu. Psychol. Meas. 15: 111-116.
29. Marín G., Gamba R. J. and Marín B. (1992). Extreme response style and acquiescence among Hispanics. J. Cross-Cult. Psychol. 23: 498-509.
30. Meisenberg G. and Williams A. (2008). Are acquiescent and extreme response styles related to low intelligence and education?. Pers. Individ. Differ. 44: 1539-1550.
31. Moors G. (2003). Diagnosing response style behaviour by means of a latent class factor approach. Socio-demographic correlates of gender role attitudes and perceptions of ethnic discrimination re-examined. Qual. Quant. 37: 277-302.
32. Morren, M.: The survey response: a mixed method study of cross-cultural differences in responding to attitude statements (Doctoral dissertation). Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands (2011).
33. Naemi, B. D.: Measuring and predicting extreme response style: a latent class approach. http://scholarship. rice. edu/bitstream/handle/1911/17901/1435749. PDF?sequence=1 (2006). Accessed 31 Aug 2010.
34. Naemi B. D., Beal D. J. and Payne S. C. (2009). Personality predictors of extreme response style. J. Pers. 77: 261-286.
35. Pedersen D. M. (1967). Acquiescence and social desirability response sets and some personality correlates. Edu. Psychol. Meas. 27: 691-697.
36. Rorer L. G. (1965). The great response-style myth. Psychol. Bull. 63: 129-156.
37. Shulman A. (1973). A comparison of two scales on extremity bias. Public Opin. Q. 37: 407-412.
38. Smith P. B. (2004). Acquiescent response bias as an aspect of cultural communication style. J. Cross-Cult. Psychol. 35: 50-61.
39. Thompson S. C. G. and Barton M. (1994). Ecocentric and anthropocentric attitudes toward the environment. J. Environ. Psychol. 14: 149-157.
40. van Herk H., Poortinga Y. H. and Verhallen T. M. M. (2004). Response styles in rating scales: evidence of method bias in data from six EU countries. J. Cross-Cult. Psychol. 35: 346-360.
41. van Rosmalen J., van Herk H. and Groenen P. J. F. (2007). Identifying unknown response styles: a latent class bilinear multinomial logit model. J. Mark. Res. 47: 157-172.