Robert F Belli
Biographic Data
| ID | 1735975 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert F Belli |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert F |
| FAMILY NAME | Belli |
| SIGNATURE | BELLI R F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nebraska–Lincoln |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4723-5769 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 344 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Long-Term Health Consequences of Movement Restrictions for Palestinians, 1987–2011
Objectives. To estimate the long-term association between Israeli-imposed restrictions on travel for medical care in the occupied Palestinian territory and health status in adulthood. Methods. Using event history calendar methods, we collected annual data from 1987 to 2011 from a representative sample of 1778 Palestinians aged 32 to 43 years and analyzed the subsample of whomever had a serious medical condition and needed to travel for medical ca…
Whither the “Children of the Stone”? An Entire Life under Occupation
This article summarizes a uniquely thorough study of the first generation of Palestinians to have lived the whole of their lives under occupation. Findings from group interviews and large, representative surveys of men and women from the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip in 2011 draw a complex portrait of day-to-day life both currently and historically, including: widespread political activism that they continue to prize; high levels …
Long-term exposure to political violence: The particular injury of persistent humiliation
Memory, Communication, and Data Quality in Calendar Interviews
Calendar instruments are hypothesized to promote data quality through the increased use of retrieval cues and conversational probes intended to clarify meanings. This research explores these hypotheses by examining the associations between retrieval and conversational verbal behaviors and data-quality measures. A verbal behavior coding scheme was applied to transcripts of 165 calendar interviews that collected life-course information on residence…
True and False Recovered Memories: Toward a Reconciliation of the Debate
Beginning in the 1990s, the contentious “memory wars” divided psychologists into two schools of thought: that adults' recovered memories of childhood abuse were generally true, or that they were generally not, calling theories, therapies, professional ethics, and survivor credibility into question. More recently, findings from cognitive psychology and neuroimaging as well as new theoretical constructs are bringing balance, if not reconciliation, …
Calendar Interviewing and the Use of Landmark Events – Implications for Cross-cultural Surveys
This paper discusses potential methodological issues in the design and implementation of calendar recall aids such as the Life History Calendar for cross-cultural surveys. More specifically, it aims to provide insights into how the use of landmark events in calendar interviewing may be influenced by cross-cultural variability. As an example, we compare the landmark events reported by Dutch and American respondents in two studies in which calendar…
Interviewer Variance Between Event History Calendar and Conventional Questionnaire Interviews
Whereas the primary goal of event history calendar interviewing is to maximize the accuracy of autobiographical recall, the primary goal of standardized conventional questionnaires is to obtain valid and reliable reports by minimizing interviewer variance. The level of interviewer variance in eliciting retrospective reports for a 30-year reference period was examined between CATI event history calendar and CATI standardized conventional questionn…
Methodological Comparisons Between Cati Event History Calendar and Standardized Conventional Questionnaire Instruments
Journal Article Methodological Comparisons Between CATI Event History Calendar and Standardized Conventional Questionnaire Instruments Get access Robert F. Belli, Robert F. Belli Address correspondence to Robert F. Belli; e-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Lynette M. Smith, Lynette M. Smith Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Patricia M. Andreski, …
Life-Course Socioeconomic Position and Hypertension in African American Men: The Pitt County Study
Objectives. We investigated the odds of hypertension for Black men in relationship to their socioeconomic position (SEP) in both childhood and adulthood. Methods. On the basis of their parents’ occupation, we classified 379 men in the Pitt County (North Carolina) Study into low and high childhood SEP. The men’s own education, occupation, employment status, and home ownership status were used to classify them into low and high adulthood SEP. Four …
An experimental comparison of question forms used to reduce vote overreporting
Does the Life History Calendar Method Facilitate the Recall of Intimate Partner Violence? Comparison of Two Methods of Data Collection
Respondents' recall ability may compromise the validity of their report of lifetime experience of intimate partner violence (IPV). This study compared two interview methods: a commonly used structured interview method and the Life History Calendar (LHC) method, which combines a visual calendar with a semistructured interview schedule to help respondents gain better access to long-term memory. Comparison of two studies conducted with samples drawn…
Interaction and the Standardized Survey Interview: The Living Questionnaire
This study investigates in detail the interaction between interviewers and respondents in standardised social survey interviews. Applying the techniques of conversation analysis, Hanneke Houtkoop-Steenstra reveals how certain rules of normal conversation fail to apply in interviews based on a standard questionnaire, and offers original empirical evidence to show what really happens. Her book demonstrates that interview results can only be underst…
Event History Calendars and Question List Surveys
The research reported in this article provides the first direct experimental comparison between Event History Calendar (EHC; N=309; 84.4 percent response rate) and standardized state-of-the-art question list (Q-list; N=307; 84.1 percent response rate) interviewing methodologies. Respondents and 20 interviewers were randomly assigned to EHC and Q-list interviews that were conducted via telephone in the spring of 1998. All interviews asked for retr…
Reducing Vote Overreporting in Surveys: Social Desirability, Memory Failure, and Source Monitoring
Journal Article Reducing Vote Overreporting in Surveys: Social Desirablity, Memory Failure, and Source Monitoring Get access ROBERT F. BELLI, ROBERT F. BELLI Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MICHAEL W. TRAUGOTT, MICHAEL W. TRAUGOTT Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MARGARET YOUNG, MARGARET YOUNG Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar K…
The Structure of Autobiographical Memory and the Event History Calendar: Potential Improvements in the Quality of Retrospective Reports in Surveys
This paper reviews the literature on the structure of autobiographical memory and points to the use of event history calendars as a survey methodology that reflects this structure. Autobiographical memory structure is characterised as an hierarchical network that includes extended, summarised, and specific events, and that permits retrieval of past events through multiple pathways that work top-down in the hierarchy, sequentially within life them…
The complexity of ignorance
Reducing Vote Overreporting in Surveys: Social Desirability, Memory Failure, and Source Monitoring
Journal Article Reducing Vote Overreporting in Surveys: Social Desirablity, Memory Failure, and Source Monitoring Get access ROBERT F. BELLI, ROBERT F. BELLI Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MICHAEL W. TRAUGOTT, MICHAEL W. TRAUGOTT Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MARGARET YOUNG, MARGARET YOUNG Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar K…
Event History Calendars and Question List Surveys
The research reported in this article provides the first direct experimental comparison between Event History Calendar (EHC; N=309; 84.4 percent response rate) and standardized state-of-the-art question list (Q-list; N=307; 84.1 percent response rate) interviewing methodologies. Respondents and 20 interviewers were randomly assigned to EHC and Q-list interviews that were conducted via telephone in the spring of 1998. All interviews asked for retr…
An experimental comparison of question forms used to reduce vote overreporting
Methodological Comparisons Between Cati Event History Calendar and Standardized Conventional Questionnaire Instruments
Journal Article Methodological Comparisons Between CATI Event History Calendar and Standardized Conventional Questionnaire Instruments Get access Robert F. Belli, Robert F. Belli Address correspondence to Robert F. Belli; e-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Lynette M. Smith, Lynette M. Smith Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Patricia M. Andreski, …
Does the Life History Calendar Method Facilitate the Recall of Intimate Partner Violence? Comparison of Two Methods of Data Collection
Respondents' recall ability may compromise the validity of their report of lifetime experience of intimate partner violence (IPV). This study compared two interview methods: a commonly used structured interview method and the Life History Calendar (LHC) method, which combines a visual calendar with a semistructured interview schedule to help respondents gain better access to long-term memory. Comparison of two studies conducted with samples drawn…
Long-term exposure to political violence: The particular injury of persistent humiliation
Life-Course Socioeconomic Position and Hypertension in African American Men: The Pitt County Study
Objectives. We investigated the odds of hypertension for Black men in relationship to their socioeconomic position (SEP) in both childhood and adulthood. Methods. On the basis of their parents’ occupation, we classified 379 men in the Pitt County (North Carolina) Study into low and high childhood SEP. The men’s own education, occupation, employment status, and home ownership status were used to classify them into low and high adulthood SEP. Four …
Memory, Communication, and Data Quality in Calendar Interviews
Calendar instruments are hypothesized to promote data quality through the increased use of retrieval cues and conversational probes intended to clarify meanings. This research explores these hypotheses by examining the associations between retrieval and conversational verbal behaviors and data-quality measures. A verbal behavior coding scheme was applied to transcripts of 165 calendar interviews that collected life-course information on residence…
Whither the “Children of the Stone”? An Entire Life under Occupation
This article summarizes a uniquely thorough study of the first generation of Palestinians to have lived the whole of their lives under occupation. Findings from group interviews and large, representative surveys of men and women from the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip in 2011 draw a complex portrait of day-to-day life both currently and historically, including: widespread political activism that they continue to prize; high levels …
Interviewer Variance Between Event History Calendar and Conventional Questionnaire Interviews
Whereas the primary goal of event history calendar interviewing is to maximize the accuracy of autobiographical recall, the primary goal of standardized conventional questionnaires is to obtain valid and reliable reports by minimizing interviewer variance. The level of interviewer variance in eliciting retrospective reports for a 30-year reference period was examined between CATI event history calendar and CATI standardized conventional questionn…
Calendar Interviewing and the Use of Landmark Events – Implications for Cross-cultural Surveys
This paper discusses potential methodological issues in the design and implementation of calendar recall aids such as the Life History Calendar for cross-cultural surveys. More specifically, it aims to provide insights into how the use of landmark events in calendar interviewing may be influenced by cross-cultural variability. As an example, we compare the landmark events reported by Dutch and American respondents in two studies in which calendar…
Long-Term Health Consequences of Movement Restrictions for Palestinians, 1987–2011
Objectives. To estimate the long-term association between Israeli-imposed restrictions on travel for medical care in the occupied Palestinian territory and health status in adulthood. Methods. Using event history calendar methods, we collected annual data from 1987 to 2011 from a representative sample of 1778 Palestinians aged 32 to 43 years and analyzed the subsample of whomever had a serious medical condition and needed to travel for medical ca…
The complexity of ignorance
The complexity of ignorance
The Structure of Autobiographical Memory and the Event History Calendar: Potential Improvements in the Quality of Retrospective Reports in Surveys
This paper reviews the literature on the structure of autobiographical memory and points to the use of event history calendars as a survey methodology that reflects this structure. Autobiographical memory structure is characterised as an hierarchical network that includes extended, summarised, and specific events, and that permits retrieval of past events through multiple pathways that work top-down in the hierarchy, sequentially within life them…
Reducing Vote Overreporting in Surveys: Social Desirability, Memory Failure, and Source Monitoring
Journal Article Reducing Vote Overreporting in Surveys: Social Desirablity, Memory Failure, and Source Monitoring Get access ROBERT F. BELLI, ROBERT F. BELLI Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MICHAEL W. TRAUGOTT, MICHAEL W. TRAUGOTT Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MARGARET YOUNG, MARGARET YOUNG Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar K…
Interaction and the Standardized Survey Interview: The Living Questionnaire
This study investigates in detail the interaction between interviewers and respondents in standardised social survey interviews. Applying the techniques of conversation analysis, Hanneke Houtkoop-Steenstra reveals how certain rules of normal conversation fail to apply in interviews based on a standard questionnaire, and offers original empirical evidence to show what really happens. Her book demonstrates that interview results can only be underst…
Event History Calendars and Question List Surveys
The research reported in this article provides the first direct experimental comparison between Event History Calendar (EHC; N=309; 84.4 percent response rate) and standardized state-of-the-art question list (Q-list; N=307; 84.1 percent response rate) interviewing methodologies. Respondents and 20 interviewers were randomly assigned to EHC and Q-list interviews that were conducted via telephone in the spring of 1998. All interviews asked for retr…
Does the Life History Calendar Method Facilitate the Recall of Intimate Partner Violence? Comparison of Two Methods of Data Collection
Respondents' recall ability may compromise the validity of their report of lifetime experience of intimate partner violence (IPV). This study compared two interview methods: a commonly used structured interview method and the Life History Calendar (LHC) method, which combines a visual calendar with a semistructured interview schedule to help respondents gain better access to long-term memory. Comparison of two studies conducted with samples drawn…
Life-Course Socioeconomic Position and Hypertension in African American Men: The Pitt County Study
Objectives. We investigated the odds of hypertension for Black men in relationship to their socioeconomic position (SEP) in both childhood and adulthood. Methods. On the basis of their parents’ occupation, we classified 379 men in the Pitt County (North Carolina) Study into low and high childhood SEP. The men’s own education, occupation, employment status, and home ownership status were used to classify them into low and high adulthood SEP. Four …
An experimental comparison of question forms used to reduce vote overreporting
Methodological Comparisons Between Cati Event History Calendar and Standardized Conventional Questionnaire Instruments
Journal Article Methodological Comparisons Between CATI Event History Calendar and Standardized Conventional Questionnaire Instruments Get access Robert F. Belli, Robert F. Belli Address correspondence to Robert F. Belli; e-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Lynette M. Smith, Lynette M. Smith Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Patricia M. Andreski, …
Interviewer Variance Between Event History Calendar and Conventional Questionnaire Interviews
Whereas the primary goal of event history calendar interviewing is to maximize the accuracy of autobiographical recall, the primary goal of standardized conventional questionnaires is to obtain valid and reliable reports by minimizing interviewer variance. The level of interviewer variance in eliciting retrospective reports for a 30-year reference period was examined between CATI event history calendar and CATI standardized conventional questionn…
True and False Recovered Memories: Toward a Reconciliation of the Debate
Beginning in the 1990s, the contentious “memory wars” divided psychologists into two schools of thought: that adults' recovered memories of childhood abuse were generally true, or that they were generally not, calling theories, therapies, professional ethics, and survivor credibility into question. More recently, findings from cognitive psychology and neuroimaging as well as new theoretical constructs are bringing balance, if not reconciliation, …
Calendar Interviewing and the Use of Landmark Events – Implications for Cross-cultural Surveys
This paper discusses potential methodological issues in the design and implementation of calendar recall aids such as the Life History Calendar for cross-cultural surveys. More specifically, it aims to provide insights into how the use of landmark events in calendar interviewing may be influenced by cross-cultural variability. As an example, we compare the landmark events reported by Dutch and American respondents in two studies in which calendar…
Memory, Communication, and Data Quality in Calendar Interviews
Calendar instruments are hypothesized to promote data quality through the increased use of retrieval cues and conversational probes intended to clarify meanings. This research explores these hypotheses by examining the associations between retrieval and conversational verbal behaviors and data-quality measures. A verbal behavior coding scheme was applied to transcripts of 165 calendar interviews that collected life-course information on residence…
Whither the “Children of the Stone”? An Entire Life under Occupation
This article summarizes a uniquely thorough study of the first generation of Palestinians to have lived the whole of their lives under occupation. Findings from group interviews and large, representative surveys of men and women from the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip in 2011 draw a complex portrait of day-to-day life both currently and historically, including: widespread political activism that they continue to prize; high levels …
Long-term exposure to political violence: The particular injury of persistent humiliation
Long-Term Health Consequences of Movement Restrictions for Palestinians, 1987–2011
Objectives. To estimate the long-term association between Israeli-imposed restrictions on travel for medical care in the occupied Palestinian territory and health status in adulthood. Methods. Using event history calendar methods, we collected annual data from 1987 to 2011 from a representative sample of 1778 Palestinians aged 32 to 43 years and analyzed the subsample of whomever had a serious medical condition and needed to travel for medical ca…
Psychology (14 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Political science (7 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Interview (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Recall (5 works) · Survey Methodology and Nonresponse (5 works)