Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/123808 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
ISER Working Paper Series No. 2014-20
Publisher: 
University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), Colchester
Abstract: 
The presence of an interviewer is hypothesised to motivate respondents to generate an accurate answer and reduce task difficulty, but also to reduce the privacy of the reporting situation.The prevalence of indicators of satisficing (e.g., non-differentiation, acquiescence, middle categories, primacy and recency, and item nonresponse) and socially desirable responding were studied experimentally across modes and also through cognitive interviewing. Results show differences between interviewer and self-completion modes: in levels of satisficing for non- differentiation, acquiescence, and middle categories and socially desirable responding. There were also unexpected findings of a CATI primacy/positivity bias and of different ways of satisficing.
Subjects: 
Mode Effects
Interviewer presence
Satisficing
Primacy
Recency
Middle category effects
Non-differentiation
Social desirability
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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