The Effect of Question Order on Disclosure of Intimate Partner Violence: An Experimental Test Using the Conflict Tactics Scales

Measuring sexual aggression perpetration in college men: A comparison of two measures.

“…Higher SSS reports may also reflect the fact that its items are ordered in a non-hierarchical pattern as opposed to the SES practice in which items are ordered according to increasing severity. Non-hierarchical ordering of items has been shown to result in higher reports of physical aggression compared to ordering items according to increasing severity (Ramirez & Straus, 2006). …”

Perceptions of safety and victimization: does survey construction affect perceptions?

“…Thus, when both types of questions are presented in the same survey, respondents tend to use specific questions to give context to the general questions, and to direct their attention to accurately interpret the general questions (Benton and Daly 1991;McFarland 1981;Schuman and Presser 1981;Sigelman 1981;Wyer 1980). The decision to use both types of questions in the same survey can be a strategic design to assure response accuracy, like the design of the Conflict Tactics Scales (CTS) for intimate partner violence studies (Ramirez and Straus 2006). In CTS, the earlier questions about intimate partners were worded in a neutral way to increase the likelihood of subjects disclosing their violent actions against their partners, which were assessed in the later questions.…”

“…In the area of criminology, however, the questionorder effect has been explored less and deserves more attention (for exceptions, see Hart 1998;Lynch 1996;Ramirez and Straus 2006); this is especially the case given the prolific use of surveys as a research tool in the field. Survey methodology is critical in understanding the nature of crime.…”

Question Order Effects in Sustainable Behavior Norm Measurement: Gender Differences

“…Most researchers suggest that, in order to get less biased data, one should present questionnaire items in random order (Poškus, 2014;Ramirez & Straus, 2006;Siminski, 2006). In the present study, presenting questionnaire items directed at descriptive and injunctive sustainability norms in random order made both norm types salient and thus influenced responses to both types of questionnaire items.…”

“…It is known that question order (Ramirez & Straus, 2006;Schwarz & Hippler, 1995;Siminski, 2006), visual presentation (Christian & Dillman, 2004), structure, length, word familiarity (Blair, Sudman, Bradburn, & Stocking, 1977), and response order (Chan, 1991;McDermott & Frankovic, 2003) can have an impact on respondents' answers. The present study is concerned with the type of order effects that are induced by the relative position of an item in a questionnaire and the context of the previous questions (Ramirez & Straus, 2006;Siminski, 2006). These types of order effects can easily distort and thus invalidate the obtained data (Yang & Wyckoff, 2010).…”