Response Styles in Cross-national Survey Research

By Anne-Wil Harzing. 2006

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Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Safety Climate in Organizations (2016, neutral): “A single organization can be required to work to different safety standards depending on the location of operations, which potentially creates confusion and uncertainty around practices such as safety inspections (Harzing, 2006).”
Examining the impact of Culture's consequences: a three-decade, multilevel, meta-analytic review of Hofstede's cultural value dimensions. (2010, methodology): “In particular, a thorough comparison of definitions and items revealed that horizontal individualism was indistinguishable from Hofstede’s general individualism construct and that horizontal collectivism was its opposite. The 14 raters provided a 92.9% agreement on this decision. These scores were c”
Factors contributing to the quality of the transition out of elite sports in Swiss, Danish, and Polish athletes (2017, neutral): “As response style in questionnaires can be influenced by cultural dimensions such as power distance or uncertainty avoidance (Harzing, 2006), drawing conclusions, especially regarding “soft” variables measuring perceptions and attitudes, should be done cautiously (Brislin, 2000).”
Sustainability Labels on Food Products: Consumer Motivation, Understanding and Use (2014, background): “These results are partly in line with results obtained by Harzing (2006), who investigated response styles in 26 countries and also found that, among those 26 countries, Spain was among the countries with a higher degree of acquiescence, and Sweden among the countries with a higher degree of…”
Personal agency in newly arrived refugees: The role of personality, entrepreneurial cognitions and intentions, and career adaptability (2018, methodology): “In a follow-up analysis, we deemed it important to consider the possibility of response style bias, given the specific context of our study (Harzing, 2006; Johnson, Kulesa, Cho, & Shavitt, 2005).”
High self-control predicts more positive emotions, better engagement, and higher achievement in school (2014, background): “It is commonly found in collectivist cultures and in cultures with high power distance (Harzing 2006; Johnson et al. 2005; Smith 2004).”
Rating versus ranking: What is the best way to reduce response and language bias in cross-national research? (2009, background): “Important differences between countries are obscured through a reduced variance in responses between countries, caused either by cultural accommodation or by a lack of the respondent’s confidence in responding in a non-native language (see, e.g. Harzing et al., 2005; Harzing, 2006).”
A cross-cultural investigation of trait emotional intelligence in Hong Kong and the UK (2014, positive): “Previous studies have indicated that the language of a questionnaire can influence participants’ response style and that individuals tend to respond to questions in a manner that favours or accommodates the culture associated with that tongue (Bond & Yang, 1982; Harzing, 2006).”