Sorting Out the Cuckoo's Nest: A Factorial Survey Approach to the Study of Popular Conceptions of Mental Illness

Thurman, Quint C.; Lam, Julie A.; Rossi, Peter H.

doi:10.1111/j.1533-8525.1988.tb01435.x

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“…Clearly not all possible vignettes would be used in this study, but Rossi and Anderson (1982) state it is not necessary to use the entire universe of vignettes because a random sample of vignettes will contain properties of the vignette universe. For example, other scholars have used the vignette design and had a vignette universe of more than one-million while using only a small proportion of possible vignettes (Miller et al 1986;Thurman et al 1988). …”

Section: Independent Variablesmentioning

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Police Attitudes about the Use of Unnecessary Force: An Ecological Examination

Phillips

Sobol

2010

J Police Crim Psych

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An unexplored explanation for police opinion about their use of unnecessary force can be framed within the research examining police behavior in the context of its geographic location. Using Klinger's (1997) theory of social ecology as a guide, a vignette research design was employed to survey officers in four departments of varying size and structure. It was hypothesized that officers assigned to higher crime areas would more likely accept the use of unnecessary force by another officer as well as be unlikely to believe that the use of unnecessary force would be reported to a supervisor. Bivariate results and multivariate analyses show support for both hypotheses. Implications for future research and theoretical development are discussed.

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Section: Independent Variablesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Police Attitudes about the Use of Unnecessary Force: An Ecological Examination

Phillips

Sobol

2010

J Police Crim Psych

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“…2 (3) For the evaluation task different scales can be used. One may use categorical or rating scales (e.g., Dülmer, 2001;Mäs, et al, 2005;Schulte, 2002;Thurman, Lam, & Rossi, 1988). They are comparable to those used for standard questions.…”

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Method Effects in Factorial Surveys: An Analysis of Respondents' Comments, Interviewers' Assessments, and Response Behavior

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This series presents research findings based either directly on data from the German SocioEconomic Panel Study (SOEP) or using SOEP data as part of an internationally comparable data set (e.g. CNEF, ECHP, LIS, LWS, CHER/PACO). SOEP is a truly multidisciplinary household panel study covering a wide range of social and behavioral sciences: economics, sociology, psychology, survey methodology, econometrics and applied statistics, educational science, political science, public health, behavioral genetics, demography, geography, and sport science.The decision to publish a submission in SOEPpapers is made by a board of editors chosen by the DIW Berlin to represent the wide range of disciplines covered by SOEP. There is no external referee process and papers are either accepted or rejected without revision. Papers appear in this series as works in progress and may also appear elsewhere. They often represent preliminary studies and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be requested from the author directly.Any opinions expressed in this series are those of the author(s) and not those of DIW Berlin.Research disseminated by DIW Berlin may include views on public policy issues, but the institute itself takes no institutional policy positions. (1) respondents' comments about the vignettes, (2) interviewers' assessments of respondents comprehension and willingness to answer, and (3) response behavior regarding response time, use of the answering scale, and consistency of evaluations by different age groups and educational background. The respondents evaluated 24 vignettes consisting of ten dimensions that described full-time employees and their gross earnings. The evaluation task was to assess whether the given earnings were just or unjust, and if they were rated as unjust, respondents had to specify the amount of injustice on an 100-point rating scale. In regard to respondents' comments, the critique mentioned most frequently by respondents referred to the content (unrealistic descriptions) and the number of the vignettes. The analysis of the interviewers' assessments of respondents' comprehension and willingness to answer revealed less comprehension and willingness to answer for older and less well educated respondents, although these differences were similar to those found for the complete questionnaire. The analysis of the response behavior revealed no differences of response time between the groups. Analyses of response consistency show that one should consider hints for simplifying heuristics: such heuristics can lead to an artificially high response consistency. The implications of the findings are discussed.JEL: C81, D63, J31

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“…In quantitative design, a series of predetermined responses will be made available to the respondents [59]. Although quantitative vignette studies have been used in various fields of application, including psychology [65][66][67] and sociology [68][69][70] and many others [63], to the best of the authors' knowledge there are no similar design and studies within the context of post-disaster housing recovery. Typically in vignette studies, subjects are confronted with the whole population of vignettes to elicit their behavior with regard to the presented vignette scenarios [63].…”

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Family Structures, Relationships, and Housing Recovery Decisions after Hurricane Sandy

2016

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Abstract:Understanding of the recovery phase of a disaster cycle is still in its infancy. Recent major disasters such as Hurricane Sandy have revealed the inability of existing policies and planning to promptly restore infrastructure, residential properties, and commercial activities in affected communities. In this setting, a thorough grasp of housing recovery decisions can lead to effective post-disaster planning by policyholders and public officials. The objective of this research is to integrate vignette and survey design to study how family bonds affected rebuilding/relocating decisions after Hurricane Sandy. Multinomial logistic regression was used to investigate respondents' family structures before Sandy and explore whether their relationships with family members changed after Sandy. The study also explores the effect of the aforementioned relationship and its changes on households' plans to either rebuild/repair their homes or relocate. These results were compared to another multinomial logistic regression which was applied to examine the impact of familial bonds on respondents' suggestions to a vignette family concerning rebuilding and relocating after a hurricane similar to Sandy. Results indicate that respondents who lived with family members before Sandy were less likely to plan for relocating than those who lived alone. A more detailed examination shows that this effect was driven by those who improved their relationships with family members; those who did not improve their family relationships were not significantly different from those who lived alone, when it came to rebuilding/relocation planning. Those who improved their relationships with family members were also less likely to suggest that the vignette family relocate. This study supports the general hypothesis that family bonds reduce the desire to relocate, and provides empirical evidence that family mechanisms are important for the rebuilding/relocating decision-making process.

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Sorting Out the Cuckoo's Nest: A Factorial Survey Approach to the Study of Popular Conceptions of Mental Illness

Cited by 44 publications

References 45 publications

Police Attitudes about the Use of Unnecessary Force: An Ecological Examination

Police Attitudes about the Use of Unnecessary Force: An Ecological Examination

Method Effects in Factorial Surveys: An Analysis of Respondents' Comments, Interviewers' Assessments, and Response Behavior

Family Structures, Relationships, and Housing Recovery Decisions after Hurricane Sandy

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