Dealing with careless responding in survey data: Prevention, identification, and recommended best practices

MK Ward, AW Meade - Annual Review of Psychology, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Surveys administered online have several benefits, but they are particularly prone to
careless responding, which occurs when respondents fail to read item content or give …

Performance validity testing: the need for digital technology and where to go from here

JCA Finley - Frontiers in Psychology, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Neuropsychological testing can inform practitioners and scientists about brainbehavior
relationships that guide diagnostic classification and treatment planning (Donders, 2020) …

Random responders in the TIMSS 2015 student questionnaire: A threat to validity?

S Van Laar, J Braeken - Journal of Educational Measurement, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The low‐stakes character of international large‐scale educational assessments implies that
a participating student might at times provide unrelated answers as if s/he was not even …

Detecting Careless Respondents in Multidimensional Forced Choice Data: An Application of lz Person-Fit Statistic to the TIRT Model

P Lee, S Joo, M Son - Journal of Business and Psychology, 2024 - Springer
There has been growing interest in the use of multidimensional forced-choice (MFC)
measures in industrial and organizational psychology. However, despite the growing …

The effects of careless responding on the fit of confirmatory factor analysis and item response theory models

NM Voss - Behavior Research Methods, 2024 - Springer
It is common to model responses to surveys within latent variable frameworks (eg, item
response theory [IRT], confirmatory factor analysis [CFA]) and use model fit indices to …

Comparing person-fit and traditional indices across careless response patterns in surveys

EA Jones, SA Wind, CL Tsai… - Applied Psychological …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Methods to identify carelessness in survey research can be valuable tools in reducing bias
during survey development, validation, and use. Because carelessness may take multiple …

Internal Structure of the Work–Family Conflict Questionnaire (WFCQ) in Teacher Teleworking

H Santa-Cruz-Espinoza, G Chávez-Ventura… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
The interference between family and work roles has led to the development of scales for
their measurement. However, instrumental studies of work–family conflict have not been …

Contrasting multistage and computer-based testing: score accuracy and aberrant responding

G Sideridis, H Ghamdi, O Zamil - Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The goal of the present study was to compare and contrast the efficacy of a multistage
testing (MST) design using three paths compared to a traditional computer-based testing …

The relationship of insufficient effort responding and response styles: An online experiment

GM Alarcon, MA Lee - Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
While self-report data is a staple of modern psychological studies, they rely on participants
accurately self-reporting. Two constructs that impede accurate results are insufficient effort …

A comparison of person-fit indices to detect social desirability bias

S Nazari, WL Leite… - Educational and …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Social desirability bias (SDB) has been a major concern in educational and psychological
assessments when measuring latent variables because it has the potential to introduce …