Acquiescence in personality questionnaires: Relevance, domain specificity, and stability
- Autor(en)
- Daniel Danner, Julian Aichholzer, Beatrice Rammstedt
- Abstrakt
Acquiescence, which is defined as agreeing to items regardless of content, is a well-known bias in self-report instruments. This paper investigates the relevance, domain specificity, and the stability of acquiescence in personality questionnaires. Data from two large samples representative for the German (N = 1999) and for the Austrian adult population (N = 3266) were investigated with structural equation models. In both studies respondents answered, besides others, a short Big Five inventory. The three core findings are: (1) acquiescence systematically affects the variance of personality items and biases the association with other variables, (2) acquiescence is consistent across different question types, and (3) acquiescence in personality items is moderately stable over time. Implications for research and the application of personality questionnaires are discussed.
- Organisation(en)
- Institut für Politikwissenschaft
- Externe Organisation(en)
- GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften
- Journal
- Journal of Research in Personality
- Band
- 57
- Seiten
- 119-130
- Anzahl der Seiten
- 12
- ISSN
- 0092-6566
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2015.05.004
- Publikationsdatum
- 08-2015
- Peer-reviewed
- Ja
- ÖFOS 2012
- 501018 Psychologische Diagnostik, 501004 Differentielle Psychologie
- Schlagwörter
- ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
- Psychology(all), Social Psychology
- Link zum Portal
- https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/de/publications/acquiescence-in-personality-questionnaires-relevance-domain-specificity-and-stability(fa20c6ec-70cf-42a2-bb26-387b124ecee9).html