Response Styles in Cross-national Survey Research A 26-country Study
Response Styles in Cross-national Survey Research A 26-country Study
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DOI：
10.1177/1470595806066332
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发表时间：
2006-08-01
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
Harzing, Anne-Wil
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作者：
Harzing, Anne-Wil
对各国态度的研究通常依赖于将总体平均得分与李克特量表问题进行比较。这预设了当人们完成问卷时，他们的答案是基于他们回答的项目的实质意义。然而，人们的反应也受到他们的反应方式的影响。因此，我们进行的研究可能只是反映了人们对调查的反应方式的差异，而不是发现各国管理现象的真正差异。我们对26个国家的研究表明，各国之间的反应方式存在重大差异，这既证实了早期的研究，也扩展了早期的研究。国家层面的特征如权力距离、集体主义、不确定性回避和外向性都对默认和极端反应方式有显著影响。此外，英语问卷显示出更高水平的中间回答，而在被调查者的母语问卷导致更极端的回答风格。最后，英语能力与极端反应风格呈正相关，与中等反应风格负相关。最后，我们将讨论对跨国研究的影响。
Studies of attitudes across countries generally rely on a comparison of aggregated mean scores to Likert-scale questions. This presupposes that when people complete a questionnaire, their answers are based on the substantive meaning of the items to which they respond. However, people's responses are also influenced by their response style. Hence, the studies we conduct might simply reflect differences in the way people respond to surveys, rather than picking up real differences in management phenomena across countries. Our 26-country study shows that there are major differences in response styles between countries that both confirm and extend earlier research. Country-level characteristics such as power distance, collectivism, uncertainty avoidance and extraversion all significantly influence response styles such as acquiescence and extreme response styles. Further, English-language questionnaires are shown to elicit a higher level of middle responses, while questionnaires in a respondent's native language result in more extreme response styles. Finally, English-language competence is positively related to extreme response styles and negatively related to middle response styles. We close by discussing implications for cross-national research.