Data collection mode and social desirability bias in self-reported religious attendance : Church attendance in the United States
Data collection mode and social desirability bias in self-reported religious attendance : Church attendance in the United States
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DOI：
10.2307/2657486
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发表时间：
1998-02
影响因子：
9.1
通讯作者：
Stanley Presser;Linda Stinson
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作者：
Stanley Presser;Linda Stinson
与传统的面试官管理的问题，参加宗教服务，自我管理的项目和时间使用的项目应尽量减少社会可取性的压力。事实上，他们每个人都减少了大约三分之一的每周宗教出勤率。这种测量方法的差异一般不会影响出勤率和人口统计特征之间的关联。然而，它确实改变了观察到的趋势，在宗教出席随着时间的推移：在传统的采访者管理的项目记录的几乎恒定的出席率相反，最大限度地减少社会期望偏差的方法显示，每周出席率在过去的三十年中不断下降。这些结果为美国变得更加世俗化的假设提供了支持，并且它们证明了行政模式在减少测量误差方面的作用
Compared to conventional interviewer-administered questions about attendance at religious services, self-administered items and time-use items should minimize social desirability pressures. In fact, they each reduce claims of weekly religious attendance by about one-third. This difference in measurement approach does not generally affect associations between attendance and demographic characteristics. It does, however, alter the observed trend in religious attendance over time : in contrast to the almost constant attendance rate recorded by conventional interviewer-administered items, approaches minimizing social desirability bias reveal that weekly attendance has declined continuously over the past three decades. These results provide support for the hypothesis that America has become more secularized, and they demonstrate the role of mode of administration in reducing measurement error