180
Views
10
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Original Articles

Acquiescence as differential person functioning

&
Pages 535-548 | Published online: 14 Sep 2010

References

  • Allalouf , A , Hambleton , RK and Sireci , SG . (1999) . Identifying the causes of DIF in translated verbal items . Journal of Measurement Educational , 36 (3) : 185 – 198 .
  • Barnette , JJ . (1999) . Nonattending respondent effects on internal consistency of self‐administered surveys: a Monte Carlo simulation study . Educational and Psychological Measurement , 59 (1) : 38 – 46 .
  • Benson , J and Hocevar , D . (1985) . The impact of item phrasing on the validity of attitude scales for elementary school children . Journal of Educational Measurement , 22 (3) : 231 – 240 .
  • Best JW Kahn JV (1998) Research in education (8th edn) (Needham Heights, MA, Allyn & Bacon)
  • Camilli G Shepard LA (1994) Methods for identifying biased test items (Thousand Oaks, CA, Sage)
  • Clauser , B , Mazor , KM and Hambleton , RK . (1994) . The effects of score group width on the Mantel–Haenszel procedure . Journal of Educational Measurement , 31 (1) : 67 – 78 .
  • Couch , A and Keniston , K . (1960) . Yeasayers and naysayers: agreeing response set as a personality variable . Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology , 60 : 151 – 174 .
  • Cronbach , LJ . (1942) . Studies of acquiescence as a factor in the true–false test . The Journal of Educational Psychology , 33 : 401 – 415 .
  • Crowl TK (1996) Fundamentals of educational research (2nd edn) (Madison, WI, Brown & Benchmark)
  • Davison , ML and Srichantra , N . (1988) . Acquiescence in components analysis and multidimensional scaling of self‐rating items . Applied Psychological Measurement , 12 (4) : 339 – 351 .
  • Dodeen , H and Johanson , GA . (2003) . An analysis of sex‐related differential item functioning in attitude assessment . Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education , 28 (2) : 129 – 134 .
  • Donoghue , JR and Allen , NL . (1993) . Thin versus thick matching in the Mantel–Haenszel procedure for detecting DIF . Journal of Educational Statistics , 18 (2) : 131 – 154 .
  • Dorans , NJ . (1989) . Two new approaches to assessing differential item functioning: standardization and the Mantel–Haenszel method . Applied Measurement in Education , 2 (3) : 217 – 233 .
  • Dorans NJ Holland PW (1993) DIF detection and description: Mantel–Haenszel and standardization in P. W. Holland & H. Wainer (Eds) Differential item functioning (Hillsdale, NJ, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates) 35 66
  • Helmes , E and Holden , RR . (2003) . The construct of social desirability: one or two dimensions? . Personality and Individual Differences , 34 : 1015 – 1023 .
  • Holden , RR , Fekken , GC and Jackson , DN . (1985) . Structured personality test item characteristics and validity . Journal of Research in Personality , 19 (4) : 386 – 394 .
  • Holland PW Thayer DT (1988) Differential item performance and the Mantel–Haenszel procedure in: H. Wainer & H. I. Braun (Eds) Test validity (Hillsdale, NJ, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates) 129 145
  • Jackson DN (1967) Acquiescence response styles: problems of identification and control in: I. A. Berg (Ed.) Response set in personality assessment (Chicago, IL, Aldine) 71 114
  • Johanson , GA . (1997) . Differential item functioning in attitude assessment . Evaluation Practice , 18 (2) : 127 – 135 .
  • Johanson , GA and Alsmadi , A . (2002) . Differential person functioning . Educational and Psychological Measurement , 62 (3) : 435 – 443 .
  • Knowles , ES and Nathan , KT . (1997) . Acquiescent responding in self‐reports: cognitive style or social concern? . Journal of Research in Personality , 31 : 293 – 301 .
  • Krathwohl DR (1993) Methods of educational and social science research: an integrated approach (New York, Longman)
  • Krosnick , JA . (1991) . Response strategies for coping with the cognitive demands of attitude measurement in surveys . Applied Cognitive Psychology , 5 : 213 – 236 .
  • Krosnick JA (1999a) Maximizing questionnaire quality in: J. P. Robinson, P. R. Shaver & L. S. Wrightsman (Eds) Measures of political attitudes (San Diego, CA, Academic Press) 37 57
  • Krosnick , JA . (1999b) . Survey research . Annual Review of Psychology , 50 : 537 – 567 .
  • Lentz , TF . (1938) . Acquiescence as a factor in the measurement of personality [abstract] . Psychological Bulletin , 35 : 659
  • Mantel , N and Haenszel , W . (1959) . Statistical aspects of the analysis of data from retrospective studies of disease . Journal of the National Cancer Institute , 22 : 719 – 748 .
  • Marsh , HW . (1986) . Negative item bias in rating scales for preadolescent children: a cognitive‐developmental phenomenon . Developmental Psychology , 22 (1) : 37 – 49 .
  • McGee , RK . (1962) . Response style as a personality variable: by what criterion? . Psychological Bulletin , 59 (4) : 284 – 295 .
  • McSteen PE (1997) An investigation of the relationship between dispositional optimism and family environment, psychological hardiness, and locus of control Dissertation Abstracts International AAT9732649
  • Miklich , DR . (1966) . Social desirability and ‘acquiescent response set’ . Psychological Reports , 19 : 887 – 890 .
  • Moos RH Moos BS (1994) Family Environment Scale manual: development, applications, research (3rd edn) (Palo Alto, CA, Consulting Psychologists Press)
  • Mueller DJ (1986) Measuring social attitudes: a handbook for researchers and practitioners (New York, Teachers College Press)
  • Narayan , S and Krosnick , JA . (1996) . Education moderates some response effects in attitude measurement . Public Opinion Quarterly , 60 : 58 – 88 .
  • Osborn , CJ and Johanson , GA . (2001) . Development and validation of the Theoretical Orientation Scale for Clinicians: reflecting solution‐focused principles . Assessment , 8 (3) : 301 – 313 .
  • Pillote , WJ and Gable , RK . (1990) . The impact of positive and negative item stems on the validity of a computer anxiety scale . Educational and Psychological Measurement , 50 (3) : 603 – 610 .
  • Pinsoneault , TB . (1998) . A Variable Response Inconsistency Scale and a True Response Inconsistency Scale for the Jesness Inventory . Psychological Assessment , 10 : 21 – 32 .
  • Raju , NS , Bode , RK and Larsen , VS . (1989) . An empirical assessment of the Mantel–Haenszel statistic for studying differential item performance . Applied Measurement in Education , 2 : 1 – 13 .
  • Rorer , LG . (1965) . The great response–style myth . Psychological Bulletin , 63 (3) : 129 – 156 .
  • Rundquist , EA . (1966) . Item and response characteristics in attitude and personality measurement: a reaction to L. G. Rorer's ‘The Great Response–Style Myth’ . Psychological Bulletin , 66 : 166 – 177 .
  • Schmitt , N and Stults , DM . (1985) . Factors defined by negatively keyed items: the result of careless respondents? . Applied Psychological Measurement , 9 (4) : 367 – 373 .
  • Schriesheim , CA and Hill , KD . (1981) . Controlling acquiescence response bias by item reversals: the effect on questionnaire validity . Educational and Psychological Measurement , 41 : 1101 – 1114 .
  • Schuman H Presser S (1981) Questions and answers in attitude surveys: experiments on question form, wording, and context (Thousand Oaks, CA, Sage)
  • Simpson , RD , Rentz , RR and Shrum , JW . (1976) . Influence of instrument characteristics on student responses in attitude assessment . Journal of Research on Science Teaching , 13 : 275 – 281 .
  • Spector PE (1992) Summated rating scale construction: an introduction (Newbury Park, CA, Sage)
  • Topf , M . (1986) . Response sets in questionnaire research . Nursing Research , 35 : 119 – 121 .
  • Weems , GH , Onwuegbuzie , AJ , Schreiber , JB and Eggers , SJ . (2003) . Characteristics of respondents who respond differently to positively and negatively worded items on rating scales . Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education , 28 (6) : 587 – 607 .
  • Zuckerman , M , Knee , CR , Hodgins , HS and Miyake , K . (1995) . Hypothesis confirmation: the joint effect of positive test strategy and acquiescence response set . Journal of Personality and Social Psychology , 68 : 52 – 60 .

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.