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Sarah K. Cowan; Michael Hout; Stuart Perrett – Sociological Methods & Research, 2024
Long-running surveys need a systematic way to reflect social change and to keep items relevant to respondents, especially when they ask about controversial subjects, or they threaten the items' validity. We propose a protocol for updating measures that preserves content and construct validity. First, substantive experts articulate the current and…
Descriptors: Surveys, Public Opinion, Social Attitudes, Pregnancy
Robbins, Blaine G. – Sociological Methods & Research, 2022
The Stranger Face Trust (SFT) questionnaire and the Imaginary Stranger Trust (IST) questionnaire are two new self-report measures of generalized trust that assess trust in real (SFT) and imaginary (IST) strangers across four trust domains. Both were designed to be objective, empirically valid, and easy to administer and score. To assess…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Questionnaires, Stranger Reactions, Test Validity
Schwartz, Lauren M.; Mutanga, Jane; Kakaire, Robert; Davis-Olwell, Paula; Handel, Andreas; Sekandi, Juliet; Halloran, M. Elizabeth; Kiwanuka, Noah; Zalwango, Sarah; Whalen, Christopher C. – Sociological Methods & Research, 2021
Disease often depends on how a host interacts with his or her environment. This interaction is important for respiratory infectious diseases, where built environments may promote transmission. To learn about time use, or the amount of time people spend in a day doing various activities, in sub-Saharan Africa may be difficult because of low…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Time Management, Test Construction, Cultural Relevance
Menold, Natalja – Sociological Methods & Research, 2020
Unlike other data collection modes, the effect of labeling rating scales on reliability and validity, as relevant aspects of measurement quality, has seldom been addressed in online surveys. In this study, verbal and numeric rating scales were compared in split-ballot online survey experiments. In the first experiment, respondents' cognitive…
Descriptors: Rating Scales, Online Surveys, Cognitive Processes, Eye Movements
Legleye, Stéphane; Charrance, Géraldine; Razafindratsima, Nicolas; Bajos, Nathalie; Bohet, Aline; Moreau, Caroline – Sociological Methods & Research, 2018
Background: Reliability of nonprobability online volunteer panels for epidemiological purposes has rarely been studied. Objectives: To assess the quality of a questionnaire on sexual and reproductive health (SRH) administered in a nonprobability Web panel and in a random telephone survey (n = 8,992; n = 8,437, age 16-49 years). Especially, we were…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Birth, Questionnaires, Adolescents
Braumoeller, Bear F. – Sociological Methods & Research, 2017
Fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) has become one of the most prominent methods in the social sciences for capturing causal complexity, especially for scholars with small- and medium-"N" data sets. This research note explores two key assumptions in fsQCA's methodology for testing for necessary and sufficient…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Comparative Analysis, Social Science Research, Research Methodology