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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"response styles"”.
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Response styles in consumer research
… specific statements, is very popular. However, responses to such items may be biased by response styles, defined as respondents’ tendencies to disproportionately select specific response options. A well-known example is the acquiescence response style, i.e. the tendency to disproportionately use …
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IRTree selection validity in presence of extreme response styles
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-03-01 without embargo terms
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Rate-Accuracy Trade-Off as a Function of Test-Taking Response Styles, Perception of Time, and Test Anxiety: A Training Study
A training program was developed to help high test anxious high school students utilize optimal performance strategies when working on standardized tests. Thirty-three high and low anxious students completed a 3-week training program on "test-taking skills." Subjects were assigned to one of three …
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Identifying and Understanding Examinee Behaviors in Item Response Data that Compromise Psychometric Quality
… responder behaviors (e.g., demonstrating response styles, carelessness, and possessing misconceptions) that compromise psychometric quality and impact the interpretation and use of assessment results. Identifying these behaviors can help researchers understand and minimize their …
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How Male Consumers Construct and Negotiate Their Identities in the Marketplace: Three Essays
… the informants. In addition, a typology of men's response styles to such images was developed. Findings indicate that depending on their response styles, men reveal their experiences of masculinity as one the following: authenticity, vulnerability, individuality, achievement, and elusiveness. …
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Emotional processing in eating disorders
… eating patterns, and also how certain emotion response styles from carers (e.g. punitive, dismissive, etc towards an emotion) were related to disorder eating. The results showed that anger and sadness predicted eating disorder symptoms, and the effect was large. However, there were no …
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Effects of Varying Degrees of Fixed and Random Responding on the Validity of Score Interpretation for the SP and PSY-5 Scales of the MMPI-2-RF
… that follow are vulnerable to invalid response styles. This dissertation builds upon previous research (Handel, Ben-Porath, Tellegen, & Archer, 2010) to examine the effect of random and fixed responding, as measured by the VRIN-r and TRIN-r Scales, on the 28 SP and PSY-5 Scales. A …
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Though forced, still valid: Psychometric equivalence of forced-choice and single-statement measures
… potential in reducing the impact of various response styles and faking. However, a fundamental question remains to be answered: do FC and SS instruments measure the same underlying constructs? In addition, FC measures are theorized to be more cognitively challenging, so how would this feature …
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Deciphering the general factor in interest measures: response style or attitude
… stimuli, as well as an index of acquiescent response styles. More specifically, we test the general factor against measures of dispositional attitudes, neutral objects satisfaction, and acquiescent responding. Our results support the idea that the general factor of interests can be explained …
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Regression Models for Paired Comparisons
… to four characteristics, taken in order: (1) the response format, (2) the link function, (3) the error distribution, and (4) the mixing distribution. It expresses the scaling problem as a regression fitting in the GLMM, and shows how particular aspects of paired comparisons restrict the choices …
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Identifying Subtypes of Neurocognition using Latent Profile Analysis in Adults: A Presicion Medicine Approach
… negative impression management, inconsistent response styles and schizophrenia related concerns. These findings add to the body of research regarding the heterogeneity within neurocognitive diagnoses and provide support for a more nuanced approach to diagnosing and treatment of neurocognitive …
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Equivalence and faking issues of the aggression questionnaire and the conditional reasoning test for aggression in Korean and American samples
… not assess the same construct, trigger different response styles (i.e., extreme response style), or use behavioral exemplars that are inappropriate across cultures (Byrne&Watkins, 2003; Chen, 2008; Poortinga, van de Vijber,&van Hermert, 2002, van de Vijver&Leung, 1997). James et al. (2005) …
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Detecting the Differences in Miranda Abilities Between Individuals with and without Intellectual Disability
… the differences in Miranda abilities and response styles between a group of individuals with intellectual disability (ID) and a group without ID, which would clarify areas of vulnerability for individuals with ID. Additional goals were to determine if intelligence was an accurate predictor …
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"markers" Of Vulnerability And Episodes In Paranoid And Nonparanoid Schizophrenics
… but may be different physiological variables and response styles or coping predictions for certain subtypes of schizophrenics.
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Agency and influence: moral communication for interactive robots
… Our results highlight a couple of promising response styles. Finally, we present the integration of a norm-aware task planner and a context recognition module into a robot cognitive architecture. This integration establishes the capacity for multi-step task planning under context-sensitive …
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Insights into life skills : a targeted evaluation of constructive conflict strategies in the workplace
… in self-awareness skills and conflict response styles, during the period of February 2009 to April 2009, findings report that the Volunteer Participants of the workplace targeted intervention showed pronounced gains in their ability to handle conflict constructively. The twenty-seven …
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COGNITIVE CHARACTERISTICS AS PREDICTORS OF CHILDREN'S UNDERSTANDING OF SAFETY AND ACCIDENT PREVENTION (REFLECTION-IMPULSIVITY, CAUSAL REASONING, PARENT STYLE)
… examined in an exploratory manner. Different styles were represented in parents' responses to children, with many parents using no style consistently across unsafe situations. There were no significant relations evident between parents' response styles or beliefs concerning development and …
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Mexican American and Caucasian university students' experience of sexual harassment: the intertwining of power and culture
… In particular, the study investigated students' responses to a subset of variables that illuminate the intertwining of power and culture in the experience of harassment. These variables included: 1) responses to harassing behavior, 2) perceptions of offenders' power, 3) attitudes toward …