Longitudinal Invariance of Self-Esteem and Method Effects Associated With Negatively Worded Items

By Robert W. Motl, C. Distefano. 2002

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Management Science and Operations Research, Sociology and Political Science

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Reconceptualizing System Usage: An Approach and Empirical Test (2006, background): “However, recent studies suggest that negatively worded items can change a construct’s meaning (Motl and DiStefano 2002).”
Correlates of the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale Method Effects (2006, methodology): “Critics of this method chiefly disparage its assumption of the unidimensionality of method effects and its tendency to result in ill-defined solutions (Bagozzi, 1993; Marsh, 1989; Motl & DiStefano, 2002; Tomás & Oliver, 1999).”
Facets of visual aesthetics (2010, background): “Finally, single-item measures are subject to acquiescence bias that cannot be controlled by mixing positively and negatively keyed items (Motl and DiStefano, 2002).”
Modelling method effects as individual causal effects (2007, background): “…between the factor of the positively and the factor of the negatively formulated items (Russell and Carroll, 1999; Barrett and Russell, 1998), whereas others used confirmatory factor analysis multitrait–multimethod models (Horan et al., 2003; Motl and DiStefano, 2002) to analyse this phenomenon.”
The Psychological Need Satisfaction in Exercise Scale (2006, background): “Previous research indicates that the use of items with reverse polarity within the same scale can attenuate relationships between the variables under study (Motl, Conroy, & Horan, 2000; Motl & DiStefano, 2002).”
Acquiescence in personality questionnaires: Relevance, domain specificity, and stability☆ (2015, background): “…other authors have considered the response bias associated with wording effects as wording method factors and also find relatively high stability of these factors, for instance, in the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (Gana et al., 2013; Marsh, Scalas, & Nagengast, 2010; Motl & DiStefano, 2002).”
Further Investigating Method Effects Associated With Negatively Worded Items on Self-Report Surveys (2006, methodology): “Motl and DiStefano (2002) further reported that method effects associated with negatively worded items demonstrated longitudinal invariance, and therefore, may represent a behavioral consistency operating across time (Billiet & McClendon, 2000).”
The proximity effect: The role of inter-item distance on reverse-item bias (2009, background): “…problems ; in particular, reversed items tend to show lower factor loadings and lead to lower internal consistency because of their weaker correlation with the nonreversed items that measure the same construct (Herche & Engelland, 1996; Motl & DiStefano, 2002; Quilty, Oakman, & Risko, 2006).”
Fear of Death and Supernatural Beliefs: Developing A New Supernatural Belief Scale to Test the Relationship (2013, unknown): “…questionnaires, observer ratings), content categories, similarly worded test items, or reverse scoring (cf. Barnette, 2000; Brown, 2006; Crawford & Henry, 2004; Knight, Chisholm,Marsh, &Godfrey, 1988;Marsh, 1996;Motl & DiStefano, 2002; Podsakoff, MacKenzie, Lee, & Podsakoff, 2003; Woods, 2006).”
The ubiquity of common method variance: The case of the Big Five (2011, methodology): “These studies included analyses of data collected with the Rosenberg Self-Esteem scale (Marsh, 1996; Marsh et al., 2010; Motl & DeStefano, 2002; Tomás & Oliver, 1999) and investigations of the possibility that common method bias may represent or reflect respondent faking or socially desirable…”
Characteristics of Single-Item Measures in Likert Scale Format (2010, background): “Factors based on negatively-worded items have strong method effects and exhibit longitudinal invariance (Motl and DiStefano 2002; Horan et al. 2003).”
Autonomy support and achievement goals as predictors of perceived school performance and life satisfaction in the transition between lower and upper secondary school (2014, background): “that negatively worded items may interfere with examinations of the latent structure of a construct (Motl and DiStefano 2002).”