Assessing Marriage via Telephone Interviews and Written Questionnaires: A Methodological Note

Gano-Phillips, Susan; Fincham, Frank D.

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“…This impression management process is antithetical to the hostile personality, one that is cynical and interpersonally negative by definition, and it is not consistent with evidence that hostility is significantly and negatively associated with defensiveness (Smith and Frohm, 1985). On the other hand, mistrusting, suspicious motives may have led hostile husbands to report greater marital quality over the phone, when their sense of anonymity was lessened (Gano-Phillips and Fincham, 1992). This process could have contributed to hostile husbands' negative marital quality slopes, but not to the negative slopes observed among wives of hostile husbands.…”

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“…The telephone version of the MAT has satisfactory predictive validity for wives; using both paper-and-pencil MAT and marital interaction as criteria, wives' telephone MAT scores accurately classify approximately 88% of marriages as either distressed or nondistressed (Krokoff, 1989). In addition, comparisons between the telephone and the paper-and-pencil version of the MAT indicate that the rank order of MAT scores is highly consistent across both administration formats for both husbands and wives (Gano-Phillips and Fincham, 1992). On the other hand, the reports of marital quality that individuals provide over the phone are an average of 4 points higher than those they provide using a paperand-pencil format (Gano-Phillips and Fincham, 1992).…”

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“…In addition, comparisons between the telephone and the paper-and-pencil version of the MAT indicate that the rank order of MAT scores is highly consistent across both administration formats for both husbands and wives (Gano-Phillips and Fincham, 1992). On the other hand, the reports of marital quality that individuals provide over the phone are an average of 4 points higher than those they provide using a paperand-pencil format (Gano-Phillips and Fincham, 1992). Thus, the high levels of satisfaction we observed at the initial assessment are likely to be somewhat elevated due to method of assessment.…”

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Hostility and erosion of marital quality during early marriage

Newton

Kiecolt‐Glaser

1995

J Behav Med

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We examined the association between hostility and longitudinal changes in marital quality in a sample of 53 newlywed couples who were in their first marriages and were without children. Spouses' reports of marital quality were assessed initially at an average of 5 months into marriage and, thereafter, at three follow-up points approximately 1, 2, and 3 years subsequent to the date of marriage. Individual growth models were computed to assess the rate of change of marital quality. Hostility among husbands was significantly associated with linear decreases in their own, and their wives', reports of marital quality, even after controlling for the passage of time and the correlated variable of neuroticism. Results are consistent with the psychosocial vulnerability model of hostility and illness (Smith, Health Psychol. 11: 139-150, 1992), which posits that associations between hostility and heightened risk for morbidity and mortality are partially mediated by poor-quality relationships that develop as a consequence of the abrasive interpersonal properties of hostility.

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Hostility and erosion of marital quality during early marriage

Newton

Kiecolt‐Glaser

1995

J Behav Med

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“…41,42 Computer-based surveys have been shown to be acceptable to adults and to elicit more truthful responses on some sensitive health issues than in-person interviews. [43][44][45][46] Though providers may hesitate to use electronic surveys to elicit information on what could be sensitive topics, research in health care settings has shown greater disclosure by adolescents, adults, and adult caregivers via computer-based screenings versus face-to-face interviews on highly sensitive items surrounding substance use, sexual behavior, and intimate partner violence, [46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57] with some of this work done in ED settings.…”

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A Randomized Trial on Screening for Social Determinants of Health: the iScreen Study

Gottlieb¹,

Hessler²,

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BACKGROUND: There is growing interest in clinical screening for pediatric social determinants of health, but little evidence on formats that maximize disclosure rates on a wide range of potentially sensitive topics. We designed a study to examine disclosure rates and hypothesized that there would be no difference in disclosure rates on face-to-face versus electronic screening formats for items other than highly sensitive items. METHODS: We conducted a randomized trial of electronic versus face-to-face social screening formats in a pediatric emergency department. Consenting English-speaking and Spanish-speaking adult caregivers familiar with the presenting child’s household were randomized to social screening via tablet computer (with option for audio assist) versus a face-to-face interview conducted by a fully bilingual/bicultural researcher. RESULTS: Almost all caregivers (96.8%) reported at least 1 social need, but rates of reporting on the more sensitive issues (household violence and substance abuse) were significantly higher in electronic format, and disclosure was marginally higher in electronic format for financial insecurity and neighborhood and school safety. There was a significant difference in the proportion of social needs items with higher endorsement in the computer-based group (70%) than the face-to-face group (30%). CONCLUSIONS: Pediatric clinical sites interested in incorporating caregiver-reported socioeconomic, environmental, and behavioral needs screening should consider electronic screening when feasible, particularly when assessing sensitive topics such as child safety and household member substance use.

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“…Joinson (1999), for example, found that participants reported lower social desirability scores when completing an internet based assessment than when using paper-based methods. Gano-Phillips and Fincham (1992) suggested that telephone interviews offer a decreased sense of anonymity and might, therefore, increase socially desirable responding, in comparison to a written questionnaire.…”

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A Comparison of Methods for Collecting Self-Report Data on Sensitive Topics

Rosenbaum¹,

Rabenhorst²,

Reddy³

et al. 2006

Violence Vict

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Insufficient attention has been paid to whether disclosure rates of sensitive or stigmatizing information vary as a function of method of inquiry. Methods vary both in terms of the anonymity afforded the participant and the opportunity to make a connection with the researcher, both of which might affect participants' willingness to disclose such information. In this investigation, 215 undergraduate students were randomly assigned to complete identical questionnaires using one of the three most common methods of data collection (in-person interview, telephone interview, and paper-and-pencil questionnaire) or an automated telephonic data collection (ATDC) system. Questions on six topic areas of increasing social sensitivity (study habits, substance use, physical and sexual aggression, victimization and perpetration) were included. The results indicated that there were no differences in disclosure rates due to methods and no method by topic interaction, but the two telephonic methods both produced significantly higher participation rates than the two other methods. The results suggest that, at least for a college student sample, an automated telephonic system produces data comparable to that of more traditional methods, while offering greater convenience, economy, and participation.

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Assessing Marriage via Telephone Interviews and Written Questionnaires: A Methodological Note

Cited by 14 publications

References 11 publications

Hostility and erosion of marital quality during early marriage

Hostility and erosion of marital quality during early marriage

A Randomized Trial on Screening for Social Determinants of Health: the iScreen Study

A Comparison of Methods for Collecting Self-Report Data on Sensitive Topics

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