Project

The impact of situational and personal variables on responsestyles of attitude measures

Code
01J04107
Duration
01 January 2007 → 31 October 2011
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Social sciences
    • Marketing
Keywords
attitudes Likert scales response styles
 
Project description

In marketing attitudes are often measured by means of self-reports on multi-item scales. Responsestyles, defined as the inclination to respond in a similar way, regardless of the content of the question, often bias the responses on such measures. The objective is to investigate in which situations and for what type of respondents the bias of response styles is most problematic.