An assessment of equivalence between paper and social media surveys: The role of social desirability and satisficing

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 30, Issue , 2014, Pages 335-343

  Fang, Jiaming ^a   Wen, Chao ^b   Prybutok, Victor ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b EASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Measurement invariance; Satisficing; Social desirability; Social media; Social media surveys; Web survey

Indexed keywords

MESSAGE BOARDS; ONLINE SURVEYS; POTENTIAL MEASUREMENTS; PRIMARY OBJECTIVE; SATISFICING; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; SOCIAL MEDIA; WEB SURVEYS;

PAPER; SURVEYS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

MEASUREMENT; PAPER; SURVEYS;

EID: 84886435148     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2013.09.019     Document Type: Article

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