YEA-SAYING, NAY-SAYING, AND GOING TO EXTREMES - BLACK-WHITE DIFFERENCES IN RESPONSE STYLES
YEA-SAYING, NAY-SAYING, AND GOING TO EXTREMES - BLACK-WHITE DIFFERENCES IN RESPONSE STYLES
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DOI：
10.1086/268845
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发表时间：
1984-01-01
影响因子：
3.4
通讯作者：
OMALLEY, PM
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作者：
BACHMAN, JG;OMALLEY, PM
本文报道了一个重要的种族差异的模式，响应Likert类型的项目：黑人比白人更有可能使用极端的反应类别，特别是积极的同意不同意规模。这一结果在几次具有全国代表性的大规模青年调查中得到了一致的反映。反应风格指数（同意，不同意，默许和极端反应）显示的范围内的个体差异和跨时间的稳定性比较常用的人格措施。反应风格显示没有一致的性别差异，并没有明显的相关性与指标的家庭社会经济水平或教育成就和愿望。对于这两个种族来说，南方人的一致倾向更强，特别是在非大都市地区;然而，控制地理因素对减少黑人和白人的总体差异几乎没有作用。调查结果揭示了在处理调查和个性测量中的种族差异时可能存在的陷阱，并说明在报告和解释这种差异时需要非常谨慎。
This paper reports an important racial difference in patterns of responding to Likert-type items: blacks are more likely than whites to use the extreme response categories, particularly the positive end of agree-disagree scales. This finding appeared consistently in several large-scale nationally representative surveys of youth. Response style indexes (Agreement, Disagreement, Acquiescence, and Extreme Responding) display ranges of individual differences and cross-time stabilities comparable to commonly used personality measures. Response styles show no consistent differences by sex, and no appreciable correlation with indicators of family socioeconomic level or with educational accomplishments and aspirations. For both races, agreement tendencies are stronger among those in the South, especially in nonmetropolitan areas; however, controlling for geography does little to reduce overall black-white differences. The findings reveal potential pitfalls in dealing with racial differences in survey and personality measures, and illustrate the need for great caution in reporting and interpreting such differences.