Why are you calling me? How study introductions change response patterns.
Why are you calling me? How study introductions change response patterns.
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你为什么给我打电话？
DOI：
10.1007/s11136-005-4529-5
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发表时间：
2006
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Ubel,PeterA
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作者：
Smith,DylanM;Schwarz,Norbert;Roberts,ToddR;Ubel,PeterA
Purpose: Research on survey methodology has demonstrated that seemingly innocuous aspects of a survey’s design, such as the order of questions, can produce biased results. The current investigation extends this work by testing whether standard survey introductions alter the observed associations between variables.Methods: In two experimental studies, we invited Parkinson’s disease (PD) patients to participate in a telephone survey of (a) Parkinson’s patients, conducted by a regional medical center, or (b) the general population, conducted by a regional university. The survey in Study 1 (n = 156) first assessed life-satisfaction, and subsequently health satisfaction. In Study 2 (n = 99), we reversed the order of the two questions, asking the health questions first.Results: When the introduction focused on Parkinson’s disease, we observed an increased correlation between life-satisfaction and a later question about health satisfaction (r= 0.34 vs. 0.63 after general population versus Parkinson’s introduction, respectively; Study 1). In Study 2, asking the health questions first resulted in high correlations regardless of the introduction; in addition, judgments of life-satisfaction were lower after the Parkinson’s-focused introduction.Conclusions: When participants were informed prior to the survey that its purpose was to examine well-being in PD, health satisfaction was a much more important component of life-satisfaction, accounting for three times as much variation. We hypothesize that the survey introduction primed participants’ health status, resulting in an artificially large correlation with life-satisfaction.
