Interpretation and interview context: examining the General Social Survey name generator using cognitive methods
Interpretation and interview context: examining the General Social Survey name generator using cognitive methods
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DOI：
10.1016/s0378-8733(99)00013-1
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发表时间：
1999-07-01
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3.1
通讯作者：
Marsden, PV
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作者：
Bailey, S;Marsden, PV
本文报告了一个小（N = 50）的研究调查受访者如何解释一般社会调查（GSS）的“讨论重要事项”的名字生成器。这项研究包括同时进行的“大声思考”访谈，在访谈中，受访者在回答名字生成器后立即被告知他们的思维过程。对这些答复的分析表明，一些答复者难以具体说明“重要事项”一词的含义；相当多的少数人从接触或亲密的频率而不是具体的社会交流的角度来理解这个问题。大多数受访者表示，他们的“重要事项”与个人/亲密关系或其他个人生活问题（例如，财务、爱好或健康）有关，但也有相当数量的人提到了工作和政治讨论。一项采访语境实验显示，受访者对“重要事项”的定义可以通过采访时间表前几部分的实质性内容来塑造。尽管有这些发现，研究中引出的网络的组成似乎并没有在不同的名称生成器的解释中有很大的不同。我们得出结论，名称生成器成功地测量了“核心”讨论网络，尽管有些非特定的内容。讨论了样本调查中个人网络测量的含义。(C) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V.版权所有
This paper reports on a small (N = 50) study of how survey respondents interpret the General Social Survey (GSS)'s "discuss important matters" name generator. The study involved concurrent think-aloud interviews, in which respondents were debriefed about their thought processes immediately after answering the name generator. Analyses of these responses indicate that some respondents had difficulty in specifying what was meant by the term "important matters"; sizable minorities understood the question in terms of frequency of contact or intimacy rather than in terms of specific social exchanges. Most of those interviewed said that their "important matters" had to do with personal/intimate relationships or other issues of personal life (e.g., finances, hobbies, or health), but appreciable numbers referred to work and political discussions. An interview context experiment revealed that a respondent's definition of "important matters" can be shaped by the substantive content of the preceding parts of an interview schedule. Notwithstanding these findings, the composition of the networks elicited in the study does not appear to vary substantially across interpretations of the name generator. We conclude that the name generator succeeds in measuring ''core'' discussion networks, though with somewhat nonspecific content. Implications for the measurement of personal networks in sample surveys are discussed. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.