On the use of college students in social science research: Insights from a second-order meta-analysis
On the use of college students in social science research: Insights from a second-order meta-analysis
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DOI：
10.1086/323732
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发表时间：
2001-12-01
影响因子：
7.2
通讯作者：
Peterson, RA
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作者：
Peterson, RA
二阶元分析进行了评估的影响，使用大学生的主题在社会科学研究。4项调查反应同质性的荟萃分析（累积N > 650，000）和30项报告65种行为或心理关系效应量的荟萃分析（累积N > 350，000）为本研究提供了大学生受试者和非学生（成人）受试者的比较数据。在一般情况下，大学生科目的反应被发现是稍微比非学生科目的同质性。此外，来自大学生科目的效果大小经常不同于来自非学生科目的方向和幅度。由于没有系统的模式，观察到的差异，必须谨慎行事时，试图扩大使用大学生受试者的非学生（成人）人口发现的任何关系。结果预示着有利于，并强调，复制研究的基础上大学生科目与非学生科目之前，试图任何概括的重要性。
A second-order meta-analysis was conducted to assess the implications of using college student subjects in social science research. Four meta-analyses investigating response homogeneity (cumulative N > 650,000) and 30 meta-analyses reporting effect sizes for 65 behavioral or psychological relationships (cumulative N > 350,000) provided comparative data for college student subjects and nonstudent (adult) subjects for the present research. In general, responses of college student subjects were found to be slightly more homogeneous than those of nonstudent subjects. Moreover, effect sizes derived from college student subjects frequently differed from those derived from nonstudent subjects both directionally and in magnitude. Because there was no systematic pattern to the differences observed, caution must be exercised when attempting to extend any relationship found using college student subjects to a nonstudent (adult) population. The results augur in favor of, and emphasize the importance of, replicating research based on college student subjects with nonstudent subjects before attempting any generalizations.