Item Nonresponse in Questionnaire Research with Children

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Response Effects in Surveys on Children and Adolescents: The Effect of Number of Response Options, Negative Wording, and Neutral Mid-Point (2004, background): “Children or rather adolescents aged 16 and up are treated as adults in survey research (Borgers et al., 1999), there is no reason to treat them as a special group.”
Children and adolescents as respondents. Experiments on question order, response order, scale effects and the effect of numeric values associated with response options (2005, background): “This effect is likely to be related to their cognitive–developmental stage (Borgers and Hox 2001).”
Validating the Fun Toolkit: an instrument for measuring children’s opinions of technology (2008, background): “Slippage in this process results in a degree, or level, of satisficing and this is known to be related to the motivation of the respondent, the difficulties of the task, and the cognitive abilities of the respondent (Borgers and Hox 2001). Where the respondents are children, it can be seen that, to ”
Designing and testing questionnaires for children (2007, background): “Overall, it seems that children from age 11 up are usually able to handle four or five options, while it is preferable to use three or four for younger respondents–and, where possible, to opt for ‘yes/no’ questions instead (taking into account the need to avoid boredom setting in) (Borgers and Hox, ”