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SUBMITTER: Plieninger H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5965522 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Educational and psychological measurement 20160318 1
Even though there is an increasing interest in response styles, the field lacks a systematic investigation of the bias that response styles potentially cause. Therefore, a simulation was carried out to study this phenomenon with a focus on applied settings (reliability, validity, scale scores). The influence of acquiescence and extreme response style was investigated, and independent variables were, for example, the number of reverse-keyed items. Data were generated from a multidimensional item ...[more]