Standardization in psychological research.
By Ronald Fischer, T. Milfont. 2010
150 citations recorded by the source corpus.
The term standardization has been used in a number of different ways in psychological research, mainly in relation to standardization of procedure, standardization of interpretation and standardization of scores. The current paper will discuss the standardization of scores in more detail. Standardization of scores is a common praxis in settings where researchers are concerned with different response styles, issues of faking or social desirability. In these contexts, scores are transformed to increase validity prior to data analysis. In this paper, we will outline a broad taxonomy of standardization methods, will discuss when and how scores can be standardized, and what statistical tests are available after the transformation. Simple step-by-step procedures and examples of syntax files for SPSS are provided. Applications for personality, organizational and cross-cultural psychology will be discussed. Limitations of these techniques are discussed, especially in terms of theoretical interpretation of the transformed scores and use of such scores with multivariate statistics.
Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science
View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/de29c1c61877f47b2ed6d9052fd4496db97a526b
How researchers see this paper
The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.
In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
In Social Psychology
- E. Hardin
- V. Taras
- Seth J. Schwartz
- Irem Uz
- Markus Kemmelmeier
- H. Colleen Sinclair
- John G. Oetzel
- Riikka M. Sarala
In Sociology and Political Science
- E. Hardin
- V. Taras
- Seth J. Schwartz
- Irem Uz
- Markus Kemmelmeier
- H. Colleen Sinclair
- John G. Oetzel
- Riikka M. Sarala
Citations in the corpus
- Opposite Ends of the Same Stick? Multi-Method Test of the Dimensionality of Individualism and Collectivism (2014, methodology): “Recognizing the problem, a number of methods for correcting for response sets in crosscultural data have been suggested (for reviews, see Fischer, 2004; Fischer & Milfont, 2010; Smith & Fischer, 2008).”
- The Index of Cultural Tightness and Looseness Among 68 Countries (2015, methodology): “In other words, ERS (or ARS) and SD do not measure the same thing, and there are better methods to control for them (e.g., Fischer, 2004; Fischer & Milfront, 2010; Greenleaf, 1992).”