Empirical Tryout of a New Statistic for Detecting Temporally Inconsistent Responders.

ABSTRACT: Statistical screening of self-report data is often advised to support the quality of analyzed responses - For example, reduction of insufficient effort responding (IER). One recently introduced index based on Mahalanobis's D for detecting outliers in cross-sectional designs replaces centered scores with difference scores between repeated-measure items: Termed person temporal consistency (D2ptc). Although the adapted D2ptc index demonstrated usefulness in simulation datasets, it has not been applied to empirical data. The current study addresses D2ptc's low uptake by critically appraising its performance across three empirical applications. Independent samples were selected to represent a range of scenarios commonly encountered by organizational researchers. First, in Sample 1, a repeat-mea

SUBMITTER: Kerry MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5902740 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature