Effects of Questionnaire Length on Participation and Indicators of Response Quality in a Web Survey

By Mirta Galesic, Michael Bosnjak. 2009

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Subfields: Computer Science Applications, Sociology and Political Science

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Psychological and social factors associated with wastewater reuse emotional discomfort (2015, background): “Some studies have found that motivation to answer questions accurately decreases with survey length, though steps can be taken to reduce this effect (Galesic & Bosnjak, 2009; Herzog & Bachman,1981).”
Careless responding in questionnaire measures: Detection, impact, and remedies (2020, background): “…strategies, careless responding in the substantive measures could be also reduced by keeping the number of items at the necessary minimum (Meade & Craig, 2012), or if a lengthy survey is inevitable, by putting the most relevant items at the beginning of the survey (see Galesic & Bosnjak, 2009).”
The Effect of Fairness, Responsible Leadership and Worthy Work on Multiple Dimensions of Meaningful Work (2018, neutral): “2001; Galesic and Bosnjak 2009).”
Public acceptance and preferences related to renewable energy and grid expansion policy: Empirical insights for Germany (2016, neutral): “14:45 minutes was determined to be the minimum amount of time required for questionnaire completion, and two screening questions were included in the first and second blocks of the questionnaire [36].”
The Needs of Gender-Variant Children and Their Parents: A Parent Survey (2011, background): “The team also considered the impact of the length of the survey on response rates to reduce the number of less comprehensive responses and unanswered questions (Galesic & Bosnjak, 2009).”
Resilience Portfolios and Poly-Strengths: Identifying Protective Factors Associated With Thriving After Adversity (2017, background): “This is an excellent result by current survey standards, especially considering the survey length, with current completion rates often under 70% (Abt SRBI, 2012) and sometimes under 50% (Galesic & Bosnjak, 2009).”
Practitioners' expectations on automated fault localization (2016, background): “, why practitioners prefer some of the coarser granularities? why more experienced developers are less enthused on automated fault localization? how different are the expectations of open source and professional practitioners? It would be hard to answer all questions in one study since putting too m”
Measures Matter (2014, background): “However, with the drive toward more longitudinal research including multiple measures, participant fatigue is a serious concern (Galesic & Bosnjak, 2009).”
Effects of Length of Mindfulness Practice on Mindfulness, Depression, Anxiety, and Stress: a Randomized Controlled Experiment (2020, background): “Where available and psychometrically robust, shorter forms of measures were selected, in light of research suggesting that participants may be less likely to accurately complete longer self-report questionnaires (Galesic and Bosnjak 2009).”
Campus Climate Survey Validation Study Final Technical Report (2016, background): “298; Macer & Wilson, 2014; McMahon & Stamp, 2009; Galesic, 2006; Galesic & Bosnjak, 2009), the goal was to ensure that the CCSVS instrument took an average of 15 minutes to complete .”
Will the Questions Ever End? Person-Level Increases in Careless Responding During Questionnaire Completion (2020, background): “…latter participants, the former provide more uniform responses to consecutive items (Galesic & Bosnjak, 2009; Herzog & Bachman, 1981), spend less time deliberating on their responses (Galesic & Bosnjak, 2009), and are more likely to select an I don’t know response option (Krosnick et al., 2002).”
Validation of a Brief Version of the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS-18) in Five Samples (2016, background): “…collection and quality; for example, studies have shown that participants are less willing to begin and complete longer questionnaire batteries compared to shorter ones (Roszkowski and Bean 1990), and that response quality declines as questionnaire duration increases (Galesic and Bosnjak 2009).”