The Conscientious Responders Scale Helps Researchers Verify the Integrity of Personality Questionnaire Data
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13656240 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Zdravko Marjanovic (0000-0003-3082-0280, Concordia University of Edmonton, corresponding author), Lisa Bajkov, Jennifer Macdonald (0000-0001-6521-6898, Thompson Rivers University) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 122 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1529-1549 |
| Publication date | 2018-06-18 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Psychological Reports (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-2941 • E-ISSN: 1558-691X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0033294118783917 |
| PMID | 29914343 |
| OpenAlex | W2808980008 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 33 |
The Conscientious Responders Scale is a five-item embeddable validity scale that differentiates between conscientious and indiscriminate responding in personality-questionnaire data (CR & IR). This investigation presents further evidence of its validity and generalizability across two experiments. Study 1 tests its sensitivity to questionnaire length, a known cause of IR, and tries to provoke IR by manipulating psychological reactance. As expected, short questionnaires produced higher Conscientious Responders Scale scores than long questionnaires, and Conscientious Responders Scale scores were unaffected by reactance manipulations. Study 2 tests concerns that the Conscientious Responders Scale's unusual item content could potentially irritate and baffle responders, ironically increasing rates of IR. We administered two nearly identical questionnaires: one with an embedded Conscientious Responders Scale and one without the Conscientious Responders Scale. Psychometric comparisons revealed no differences across questionnaires' means, variances, interitem response consistencies, and Cronbach's alphas. In sum, the Conscientious Responders Scale is highly sensitive to questionnaire length-a known correlate of IR-and can be embedded harmlessly in questionnaires without provoking IR or changing the psychometrics of other measures
California Psychological Inventory · Cronbach's alpha · Developmental psychology · Generalizability theory · Personality · Personality Assessment Inventory · Psychometrics · Reactance · Scale (ratio · Test validity · Clinical Psychology · Personality Disorders and Psychopathology · Personality Traits and Psychology · Psychological Testing and Assessment · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Citations per year | 0,57 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |