The Conscientious Responders Scale

By Zdravko Marjanovic, C. Struthers, Robert A. Cribbie, E. Greenglass. 2014

114 citations recorded by the source corpus.

This investigation introduces a novel tool for identifying conscientious responders (CRs) and random responders (RRs) in psychological inventory data. The Conscientious Responders Scale (CRS) is a five-item validity measure that uses instructional items to identify responders. Because each item instructs responders exactly how to answer that particular item, each response can be scored as either correct or incorrect. Given the long odds of answering a CRS item correctly by chance alone on a 7-point scale (14.29%), we reasoned that RRs would answer most items incorrectly, whereas CRs would answer them correctly. This rationale was evaluated in two experiments in which CRs’ CRS scores were compared against RRs’ scores. As predicted, results showed large differences in CRS scores across responder groups. Moreover, the CRS correctly classified responders as either conscientious or random with greater than 93% accuracy. Implications for the reliability and effectiveness of the CRS are discussed.

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

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In Applied Psychology

1. M. Toplak
2. E. Greenglass
3. David B. Flora

In Management Science and Operations Research

1. M. Toplak
2. Robert A. Cribbie
3. David B. Flora

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Jala Rizeq
2. M. Toplak
3. Zdravko Marjanovic
4. E. Greenglass
5. Robert A. Cribbie
6. David B. Flora

Citations in the corpus

• An examination of the underlying dimensional structure of three domains of contaminated mindware: paranormal beliefs, conspiracy beliefs, and anti-science attitudes (2020, methodology): “Specifically, the five-item Conscientious Responders Scale (CRS; Marjanovic et al., 2014) was intermixed within the contaminated mindware items.”
• The inter-item standard deviation (ISD): An index that discriminates between conscientious and random responders (2015, methodology): “Similar to Marjanovic et al. (2014), the CR group (M = 4.58, SD = 1.16) produced significantly larger means than the 4 In Marjanovic et al. (2014) the CRS was administered using a 7-point Likert scale.”