Disclosure of sensitive behaviors across self-administered survey modes: a meta-analysis

Gnambs, Timo; Kaspar, Kai

doi:10.3758/s13428-014-0533-4

Cited by 302 publications

(227 citation statements)

References 131 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

207

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…Furthermore, answers to questions about alcohol consumption may be influenced by social desirability bias (Tourangeau & Yan, 2007), although this bias seems to be reduced in internet-based studies like the current one (Bowling, 2005;Gnambs & Kaspar, 2015).…”

Section: Limitations and Strengthsmentioning

confidence: 82%

Alcohol use among Norwegian students

Erevik

Pallesen

Vedaa

et al. 2017

Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Aims: This study investigates demographic, personality, and psychological health correlates of different drinking patterns. Design: Students at the four largest institutions of higher education in Bergen municipality were invited via email to complete an internet-based questionnaire. The final sample size was 11,236 (39.4%), mean age 24.9 years (SD ¼ 6.5), and 63.3% were women. The survey included the Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test (AUDIT) and questions about demographics, personality traits, and symptoms of depression and anxiety. Binary logistic

show abstract

Section: Limitations and Strengthsmentioning

confidence: 82%

Alcohol use among Norwegian students

Erevik

Pallesen

Vedaa

et al. 2017

Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Recall failure can be reduced by using memory priming strategies and event history calendars to focus memory search (Drasch & Matthes, 2013). Conscious nondisclosure can be reduced by increasing anonymity; for example, by having respondents privately record sensitive information in a self-report booklet that is sealed before returning it to the interviewer or via private computerized self-administration (Gnambs & Kaspar, 2015). There is some concern that complete anonymity can reduce motivation to report accurately (Lelkes, Krosnick, Marx, Judd, & Park, 2012).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Trauma and PTSD in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys

Kessler

Aguilar‐Gaxiola

Alonso

et al. 2017

European Journal of Psychotraumatology

984

720

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Background: Although post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) onset-persistence is thought to vary significantly by trauma type, most epidemiological surveys are incapable of assessing this because they evaluate lifetime PTSD only for traumas nominated by respondents as their ‘worst.’ Objective: To review research on associations of trauma type with PTSD in the WHO World Mental Health (WMH) surveys, a series of epidemiological surveys that obtained representative data on trauma-specific PTSD. Method: WMH Surveys in 24 countries (n = 68,894) assessed 29 lifetime traumas and evaluated PTSD twice for each respondent: once for the ‘worst’ lifetime trauma and separately for a randomly-selected trauma with weighting to adjust for individual differences in trauma exposures. PTSD onset-persistence was evaluated with the WHO Composite International Diagnostic Interview. Results: In total, 70.4% of respondents experienced lifetime traumas, with exposure averaging 3.2 traumas per capita. Substantial between-trauma differences were found in PTSD onset but less in persistence. Traumas involving interpersonal violence had highest risk. Burden of PTSD, determined by multiplying trauma prevalence by trauma-specific PTSD risk and persistence, was 77.7 person-years/100 respondents. The trauma types with highest proportions of this burden were rape (13.1%), other sexual assault (15.1%), being stalked (9.8%), and unexpected death of a loved one (11.6%). The first three of these four represent relatively uncommon traumas with high PTSD risk and the last a very common trauma with low PTSD risk. The broad category of intimate partner sexual violence accounted for nearly 42.7% of all person-years with PTSD. Prior trauma history predicted both future trauma exposure and future PTSD risk. Conclusions: Trauma exposure is common throughout the world, unequally distributed, and differential across trauma types with respect to PTSD risk. Although a substantial minority of PTSD cases remits within months after onset, mean symptom duration is considerably longer than previously recognized.

show abstract

“…If so, this will question the validity of such self-report measures in a pencil-and-paper administration mode, adding a new aspect to the ongoing debate about administration mode effects (cf. Gnambs & Kaspar, 2014). However, if we assume that weight effects on judgements reflect real cognitive changes in a domain, the present findings will be noteworthy regarding potential therapeutic applications.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 64%

An Embodiment Perspective on Protection Motivation Theory: The Impact of Incidental Weight Sensations on Threat-Appraisal, Coping-Appraisal, and Protection Motivation

Kaspar

2015

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This study shows how the cognitive components of the protection motivation theory (PMT) are affected by embodied information in the context of skin cancer prevention. Weight sensations were manipulated by writing on a light versus heavy clipboard. Heaviness increased the mean self-efficacy of 120 participants and their coping-appraisal but decreased the perceived rewards of maladaptive behaviour. In contrast, weight neither affected the perceived severity of maladaptive behaviour nor the importance of tanned skin. Thus, the results are only partially compatible with the metaphor-oriented approach of embodied cognition. Moreover, increased coping-appraisal, but not threat-appraisal, increased participants' reported protection motivation, while a sensed heaviness increased this correlation. The results suggest enlarging the spectrum of environmental inputs affecting the cognitive parameters of the PMT. The results also raise the question of the validity of self-reports in a pencil-and-paper administration mode and they may indicate the utility of bodily sensations in therapeutic settings.

show abstract

Disclosure of sensitive behaviors across self-administered survey modes: a meta-analysis

Cited by 302 publications

References 131 publications

Alcohol use among Norwegian students

Alcohol use among Norwegian students

Trauma and PTSD in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys

An Embodiment Perspective on Protection Motivation Theory: The Impact of Incidental Weight Sensations on Threat-Appraisal, Coping-Appraisal, and Protection Motivation

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About