Question Order Affects the Measurement of Bullying Victimization among Middle School Students.

作者: Francis L. Huang , Dewey G. Cornell

DOI: 10.1177/0013164415622664

关键词: Randomized experimentSocial psychologySequence (medicine)Question orderPsychology

摘要: Bullying among youth is recognized as a serious student problem, especially in middle school. The most common approach to measuring bullying through self-report surveys that ask questions about different types of victimization. Although prior studies have shown question-order effects may influence participant responses, no study has examined these with school students. A randomized experiment (n = 5,951 students) testing the effect found changing sequence can result 45% higher prevalence rates. These findings raise accuracy several widely used surveys.

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