Can you repeat the question? Paradata as a lens to understand respondent experience answering cognitively demanding, sensitive questions.

ABSTRACT: Survey researchers hope that respondents will provide high-quality data, but evidence suggests that social desirability bias may be commonplace. Social desirability can lead to significant underreporting or overreporting of sensitive behaviors. With better understanding of the cognitive processes that respondents use to prepare and deliver their responses, survey designers could hope to minimize social desirability bias or at least detect settings that lessen its impact. The primary objective of this study was to use survey paradata to understand the psychology of responding to certain types of survey questions. More specifically, we sought to determine how emotional triggering can alter response latencies to cognitively demanding and sensitive survey questions on induced abortion, which i

SUBMITTER: Bell SO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8183984 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature