Misresponse to Reversed and Negated Items in Surveys: A Review

By Bert Weijters, H. Baumgartner. 2012

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Marketing, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Citations in the corpus

• Abusive supervision climate: : A multiple-mediation model of its impact on group outcomes (2014, background): “Participants can misinterpret or misread reverse-coded items, as it is easy to overlook words that negate a certain statement (Swain, Weathers, & Niedrich, 2008; Weijters & Baumgartner, 2012).”
• Working on my own: Measuring the challenges of gig work (2021, background): “However, because of the reverse-scored items’ lower performance and scholarly debate about the importance of reverse-scored items and their impact on minimizing some types of errors but promoting others (e.g. Hinkin, 1995; Weijters and Baumgartner, 2012), we also included additional non-reverse-scor”
• Common Method Variance in Advertising Research: When to Be Concerned and How to Control for It (2017, neutral): “, Lindell and Whitney 2001; Richardson, Simmering, and Sturman 2009; Williams, Hartman, and Cavazotte 2010; Williams and O’Boyle 2015). Lindell and Whitney (2001) presented the earliest version of the MVT, which we refer to as L&W-MVT.”