Controlling social desirability bias: An experimental investigation of the extended crosswise model.

ABSTRACT: Indirect questioning techniques such as the crosswise model aim to control for socially desirable responding in surveys on sensitive personal attributes. Recently, the extended crosswise model has been proposed as an improvement over the original crosswise model. It offers all of the advantages of the original crosswise model while also enabling the detection of systematic response biases. We applied the extended crosswise model to a new sensitive attribute, campus islamophobia, and present the first experimental investigation including an extended crosswise model, and a direct questioning control condition, respectively. In a paper-pencil questionnaire, we surveyed 1,361 German university students using either a direct question or the extended crosswise model. We found that the extended c

SUBMITTER: Meisters J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7721152 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature