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Social desirability and self-reported health risk behaviors in web-based research: three longitudinal studies.


ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: These studies sought to investigate the relation between social desirability and self-reported health risk behaviors (e.g., alcohol use, drug use, smoking) in web-based research. METHODS: Three longitudinal studies (Study 1: N = 5612, 51% women; Study 2: N = 619, 60%; Study 3: N = 846, 59%) among randomly selected members of two online panels (Dutch; German) using several social desirability measures (Marlowe-Crowne Scale; Balanced Inventory of Desirable Responding; The Social Desirability Scale-17) were conducted. RESULTS: Social desirability was not associated with self-reported current behavior or behavior frequency. Socio-demographics (age; sex; education) did not moderate the effect of social desirability on self-reported measures regarding health risk behaviors. CONCLUSIONS: The studies at hand provided no convincing evidence to throw doubt on the usefulness of the Internet as a medium to collect self-reports on health risk behaviors.

SUBMITTER: Crutzen R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2996374 | biostudies-other | 2010

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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Social desirability and self-reported health risk behaviors in web-based research: three longitudinal studies.

Crutzen Rik R   Göritz Anja S AS  

BMC public health 20101123


<h4>Background</h4>These studies sought to investigate the relation between social desirability and self-reported health risk behaviors (e.g., alcohol use, drug use, smoking) in web-based research.<h4>Methods</h4>Three longitudinal studies (Study 1: N = 5612, 51% women; Study 2: N = 619, 60%; Study 3: N = 846, 59%) among randomly selected members of two online panels (Dutch; German) using several social desirability measures (Marlowe-Crowne Scale; Balanced Inventory of Desirable Responding; The  ...[more]

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