Further Investigating Method Effects Associated With Negatively Worded Items on Self-Report Surveys

By C. Distefano, Robert W. Motl. 2006

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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The Self-Compassion Scale is a Valid and Theoretically Coherent Measure of Self-Compassion (2016, methodology): “…to be sensitive to positive versus negative affect, and there may have been a method effect which accounted for the fact that all positive items tended to load on one factor and all negative items on another that had little to do with substantive item content (DiStefano and Motl 2006; Woods 2006).”
Directionality of the Associations of High School Expectancy-Value, Aspirations, and Attainment (2015, background): “…robust maximum likelihood (MLR) estimator, which is robust to the nesting of the students within schools and to the Likert nature of items including four or more answer categories (Mplus’s complex design option; Muthén & Muthén, 2012; e.g., Beauducel & Herzberg, 2006; Distefano & Motl, 2006).”
Research into Questionnaire Design: A Summary of the Literature (2010, methodology): “…(Belson 1981; Foddy 1993) as they have been found to take longer to process (Weems et al. 2002) and have a greater likelihood of respondents making mistakes (Eifermann 1961; Dudycha & Carpenter 1973), thus introducing an artificial methods effect into the response behaviour (DiStefano & Motl 2006).”
Method Effects, Measurement Error, and Substantive Conclusions (2010, background): “…(e.g., Kenny & Zautra, 2001; Schermelleh-Engel, Keith, Moosbrugger, & Hodapp, 2004), and positive–negative item wording effects that have been shown to be related predictably to personality traits such as neuroticism emotional stability (e.g., DiStefano & Motl, 2006; Quilty, Oakman, & Risko, 2006).”
Factorial, Convergent, and Discriminant Validity of TIMSS Math and Science Motivation Measures: A Comparison of Arab and Anglo-Saxon Countries (2013, methodology): “…logic of multitrait-method studies of method effects is to test for negative-item method effects by including correlated uniquenesses between negatively worded items (e.g., Benson & Hocevar, 1985; Carmines & Zeller, 1979; DiStefano & Motl, 2006; Marsh, 1986, 1996; Marsh, Scalas, & Nagengast, 2010).”
The ubiquity of common method variance: The case of the Big Five (2011, result): “Although other researchers had found item wording influences associated with negatively worded items (e.g., DiStefano & Motl, 2006), Marsh et al.’s results provided evidence for analogous influences associated with positively worded items.”
Expectancy-value in mathematics, gender and socioeconomic background as predictors of achievement and aspirations : A multi-cohort study (2015, background): “Method effects associated with negative item wording have been reported in many studies (DiStefano & Motl, 2006; Marsh, 1986; Marsh & O'Mara, 2008;Marsh, Scalas, & Nagengast, 2010).”