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Assy Z, van Santen JS, Brand HS, Bikker FJ. Use and efficacy of dry-mouth interventions in Sjögren's disease patients and possible association with perceived oral dryness and patients' discomfort. Clin Oral Investig 2023; 27:5529-5537. [PMID: 37507599 PMCID: PMC10492750 DOI: 10.1007/s00784-023-05172-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2023] [Accepted: 07/13/2023] [Indexed: 07/30/2023]
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OBJECTIVES Sjögren's disease (SjD) patients use various interventions to relief their oral dryness. However, the use and efficacy of these interventions have only partially been evaluated. The present study aims to investigate whether there is an association between the perceived oral dryness and discomfort of SjD patients and their use of specific interventions. MATERIALS AND METHODS A cross-sectional study was performed among SjD patients, who completed several questionnaires to assess the severity of their oral dryness and an inventory of dry-mouth interventions. The perceived efficacy of each intervention was reported on a 5-point Likert-scale. RESULTS The questionnaires were returned by 92 SjD patients. For relief of oral dryness, they mostly used "eating fruit", "drinking tea", "moistening the lips", "drinking water, and "drinking small volumes" (> 50%). Three interventions had a frequency of use ranging from 2-6 times/day, whereas, "drinking water" and "drinking small volumes" showed higher frequencies (> 14). The highest overall efficacy (≥ 3.5) was reported for "chewing gum" and "using a mouth gel". Furthermore, various dry-mouth interventions showed significant associations with oral dryness scores and/or patients' discomfort. For example, "drinking small volumes" and "using XyliMelts" were associated with the Bother Index score. CONCLUSION Great variation was found in the use of dry-mouth interventions by the participants and the severity of the oral dryness and/or patients' discomfort seemed to affect their choice of intervention. Notably, the mostly used interventions did not show the highest reported efficacy. CLINICAL RELEVANCE These findings might help SjD patients and clinicians in their choice of effective dry-mouth interventions.
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- Z Assy
- Department of Oral Biochemistry, Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam and VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Oral Biochemistry, Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam and VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Oral Biochemistry, Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam and VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Oral Biochemistry, Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam and VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Chen HF, Jin KY. The Impact of Item Feature and Response Preference in a Mixed-Format Design. MULTIVARIATE BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH 2022; 57:208-222. [PMID: 33001710 DOI: 10.1080/00273171.2020.1820308] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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A combination of positively and negatively worded items (termed a mixed-format design) has been widely adopted in personality and attitude assessments. While advocates claim that the inclusion of positively and negatively worded items will encourage respondents to process the items more carefully and avoid response preference, others have reported that negatively worded (NW) items may induce a nuisance factor and contaminate scale scores. The present study examined the extent of the impact of the NW-item feature and further investigated whether a mixed-format design could effectively control acquiescence and the preference for extreme response options using two datasets (Attitude toward Peace Walls, and International Personality Item Pool). A proposed multidimensional item response model was implemented to simultaneously estimate the impact of item feature and response preference. The results suggested that NW items induced an impact on item responses and that affirmative preference was negligible, regardless of the proportion of NW items in a scale. However, participants' extremity preference was large in both balanced and imbalanced mixed-format designs. It concludes that the impact of the NW-item feature is not negligible in a mixed-format scale, which exhibits good control of acquiescence but not extremity preference.
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- Hui-Fang Chen
- Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences, City University of Hong Kong
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- Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong
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Oh VYS. Torn Between Valences: Mixed Emotions Predict Poorer Psychological Well-Being and Job Burnout. JOURNAL OF HAPPINESS STUDIES 2022; 23:2171-2200. [PMID: 35095334 PMCID: PMC8783779 DOI: 10.1007/s10902-021-00493-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 12/13/2021] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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UNLABELLED Conflicting perspectives on whether mixed emotions are adaptive states which promote integrative processes or uncomfortable states which are agonizing make divergent predictions on whether mixed emotions in daily life are conducive towards psychological well-being. We examined this across three studies. Study 1 (N = 335, 135 males; M age = 41.31) examined associations between state mixed emotions and psychological well-being. Study 2 (N = 389; 160 males; M age = 40.86) examined associations between workplace-specific mixed emotions and workplace ill-being assessed based on burnout. Both direct measures and indirect measures were examined in Study 1 and 2, allowing some comparison of methodological issues related to their predictive validity. Study 3 (N = 3444; 1587 males; M age = 55.34) examined bidirectional relationships between an index of emotional ambivalence and psychological well-being about ten years later, controlling for baselines. Demographic covariates, positive emotions, and negative emotions were controlled for in all studies. Analyses were performed using latent variable structural equation modelling. After adjusting for all covariates, the direct measures of mixed emotions predicted poorer psychological well-being (Study 1) and greater burnout (Study 2). However, indirect measures were found to suffer from relatively greater multicollinearity and poorer predictive validity upon controlling for positive and negative emotions. In Study 3, emotional ambivalence predicted poorer long-term psychological well-being, while psychological well-being also predicted lower emotional ambivalence, supporting bidrectionality. The findings provide preliminary evidence that naturalistically experienced mixed emotions may be conflicting and unpleasant, with potentially negative implications for psychological well-being over and above positive and negative emotions. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10902-021-00493-z.
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- Vincent Y. S. Oh
- Department of Psychology, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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Dobbs TD, Harrison CJ, Ottenhof MJ, Gibson JAG, Matin RN, Rodrigues JN, Hutchings HA, Whitaker IS. Construct validity of the anglicised FACE-Q skin cancer module. J Plast Reconstr Aesthet Surg 2021; 75:1644-1652. [PMID: 34955401 DOI: 10.1016/j.bjps.2021.11.093] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2021] [Accepted: 11/14/2021] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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OBJECTIVES The FACE-Q Skin Cancer module is a patient-reported outcome measure (PROM) for facial skin cancer. It has been anglicised for the UK population and undergone psychometric testing using classical test theory. In this study, further evaluation of construct validity using Rasch measurement theory and hypothesis testing was performed. METHODS Patients were prospectively recruited to the Patient-Reported Outcome Measures In Skin Cancer Reconstruction (PROMISCR) study and asked to complete the anglicised FACE-Q Skin Cancer module. The scalability and unidimensionality of the data were assessed with a Mokken analysis prior to Rasch analysis. Response thresholds, targeting, fit statistics, local dependency, and internal consistency were examined for all items and subscales. Four a priori hypotheses were tested to evaluate the convergent and divergent validity. We additionally hypothesised that the median 'cancer worry' score would be lower in post-operative than pre-operative patients. RESULTS 239 patients self-completed the questionnaire between August 2017 and May 2019. Of the ten subscales assessed, five showed relative fit to the Rasch model. Unidimensionality was present for all five subscales, with most demonstrating ordered item thresholds and appropriate fit statistics. Two items in the 'cancer worry' subscale had either disordered or very close response thresholds. Subscales of the FACE-Q Skin Cancer module demonstrated convergent and divergent validity with relevant Skin Cancer Index comparators (p < 0.001). Median 'cancer worry' was lower in post-operative patients (44 vs 39, p < 0.001). CONCLUSION The anglicised FACE-Q Skin Cancer module shows psychometric validity through hypothesis testing, and both classical and modern test theory.
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- T D Dobbs
- Reconstructive Surgery & Regenerative Medicine Research Group, Institute Of Life Sciences, Swansea University Medical School, Swansea, UK; Welsh Centre for Burns and Plastics, Morriston Hospital, Swansea, UK.
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- Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Patient-Reported Outcomes, Value and Experience (PROVE) Centre, Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Reconstructive Surgery & Regenerative Medicine Research Group, Institute Of Life Sciences, Swansea University Medical School, Swansea, UK; Welsh Centre for Burns and Plastics, Morriston Hospital, Swansea, UK
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- Department of Dermatology, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Aylesbury, UK
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- Patient & Population Health & Informatics Research Group, Institute of Life Sciences 2, Swansea University Medical School, Swansea, UK
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- Reconstructive Surgery & Regenerative Medicine Research Group, Institute Of Life Sciences, Swansea University Medical School, Swansea, UK; Welsh Centre for Burns and Plastics, Morriston Hospital, Swansea, UK
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Davis RE, Lee S, Johnson TP, Conrad F, Resnicow K, Thrasher JF, Mesa A, Peterson KE. The Influence of Item Characteristics on Acquiescence among Latino Survey Respondents. FIELD METHODS 2020; 32:3-22. [PMID: 34135694 PMCID: PMC8205425 DOI: 10.1177/1525822x19873272] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Acquiescence is often defined as the systematic selection of agreeable ("strongly agree") or affirmative ("yes") responses to survey items, regardless of item content or directionality. This definition implies that acquiescence is immune to item characteristics; however, the influence of item characteristics on acquiescence remains largely unexplored. We examined the influence of eight item characteristics on acquiescence in a telephone survey of 400 Latinos and non-Latino whites: qualified wording, mental comparisons, negated wording, unfamiliar terms, ambiguous wording, knowledge accessibility, item length, and polysyllabic wording. Negated and ambiguous wording was associated with reduced acquiescence for the full sample, as well as subsamples stratified by ethnicity and sociodemographic characteristics. This effect was strongest among younger, more educated, and non-Latino white respondents. No other item characteristics had a significant influence on respondent acquiescence. Findings from this study suggest that acquiescence may be affected by interactions between respondent and item characteristics.
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- Rachel E Davis
- Department of Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina
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- Program in Survey Methodology, University of Michigan
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- Department of Public Administration and Survey Research Laboratory, College of Urban Planning & Public Affairs, University of Illinois at Chicago
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- Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health, University of Michigan
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- Department of Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina
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- Department of Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina
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- Department of Nutritional Sciences, School of Public Health, Center for Human Growth and Development, University of Michigan
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Watson LK, Kaiser BN, Giusto AM, Ayuku D, Puffer ES. Validating mental health assessment in Kenya using an innovative gold standard. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY 2019; 55:425-434. [PMID: 31209898 DOI: 10.1002/ijop.12604] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2018] [Accepted: 05/19/2019] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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With the growing burden of mental health disorders worldwide, alongside efforts to expand availability of evidence-based interventions, strategies are needed to ensure accurate identification of individuals suffering from mental disorders. Efforts to locally validate mental health assessments are of particular value, yet gold-standard clinical validation is costly, time-intensive, and reliant on available professionals. This study aimed to validate assessment items for mental distress in Kenya, using an innovative gold standard and a combination of culturally adapted and locally developed items. The mixed-method study drew on surveys and semi-structured interviews, conducted by lay interviewers, with 48 caregivers. Interviews were used to designate mental health "cases" or "non-cases" based on emotional health problems, identified through a collaborative clinical rating process with local input. Individual mental health survey items were evaluated for their ability to discriminate between cases and non-cases. Discriminant survey items included 23 items adapted from existing mental health assessment tools, as well as 6 new items developed for the specific cultural context. When items were combined into a scale, results showed good psychometric properties. The use of clinically rated semi-structured interviews provides a promising alternative gold standard that can help address the challenges of conducting diagnostic clinical validation in low-resource settings.
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- Leah K Watson
- Centre for Global Health Research, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Canada.,Duke Global Health Institute, Durham, NC, USA
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- Duke Global Health Institute, Durham, NC, USA.,Department of Anthropology, Global Health Program, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Duke Global Health Institute, Durham, NC, USA.,Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
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- College of Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Department of Behavioral Sciences, Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya
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- Duke Global Health Institute, Durham, NC, USA.,Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
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Kaiser BN, Ticao C, Anoje C, Minto J, Boglosa J, Kohrt BA. Adapting culturally appropriate mental health screening tools for use among conflict-affected and other vulnerable adolescents in Nigeria. Glob Ment Health (Camb) 2019; 6:e10. [PMID: 31258924 PMCID: PMC6582460 DOI: 10.1017/gmh.2019.8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2018] [Revised: 04/19/2019] [Accepted: 05/13/2019] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND The Boko Haram insurgency has brought turmoil and instability to Nigeria, generating a large number of internally displaced people and adding to the country's 17.5 million orphans and vulnerable children. Recently, steps have been taken to improve the mental healthcare infrastructure in Nigeria, including revamping national policies and initiating training of primary care providers in mental healthcare. In order for these efforts to succeed, they require means for community-based detection and linkage to care. A major gap preventing such efforts is the shortage of culturally appropriate, valid screening tools for identifying emotional and behavioral disorders among adolescents. In particular, studies have not conducted simultaneous validation of screening tools in multiple languages, to support screening and detection efforts in linguistically diverse populations. We aim to culturally adapt screening tools for emotional and behavioral disorders for use among adolescents in Nigeria, in order to facilitate future validation studies. METHODS We used a rigorous mixed-method process to culturally adapt the Depression Self Rating Scale, Child PTSD Symptom Scale, and Disruptive Behavior Disorders Rating Scale. We employed expert translations, focus group discussions (N = 24), and piloting with cognitive interviewing (N = 24) to achieve semantic, content, technical, and criterion equivalence of screening tool items. RESULTS We identified and adapted items that were conceptually difficult for adolescents to understand, conceptually non-equivalent across languages, considered unacceptable to discuss, or stigmatizing. Findings regarding problematic items largely align with existing literature regarding cross-cultural adaptation. CONCLUSIONS Culturally adapting screening tools represents a vital first step toward improving community case detection.
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- B. N. Kaiser
- Department of Anthropology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
- Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
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- Catholic Relief Services, Abuja, Nigeria
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA
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Davis RE, Johnson TP, Lee S, Werner C. Why do Latino Survey Respondents Acquiesce? Respondent and Interviewer Characteristics as Determinants of Cultural Patterns of Acquiescence among Latino Survey Respondents. CROSS-CULTURAL RESEARCH : OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR CROSS-CULTURAL RESEARCH 2019; 53:87-115. [PMID: 34135562 PMCID: PMC8205427 DOI: 10.1177/1069397118774504] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Research indicates that Latino survey respondents are more likely to acquiesce than non-Latino European Americans, thereby decreasing the potential for measurement invariance across cultural groups. In order to better understand what drives this culturally patterned response style, we examined the influence of respondent and interviewer characteristics on acquiescence. Data were obtained from a telephone survey of 400 Mexican American, Puerto Rican, Cuban American, and non-Latino European American respondents and a self-administered survey of 21 interviewers. Higher acquiescence was associated with several respondent characteristics: older age, lower education, stronger Latino cultural orientation, Spanish use, Latino ethnicity, and, among Latinos, Cuban American ethnicity. In contrast, acquiescence was not influenced by respondent-interviewer social distance, social deference, or interviewer characteristics (e.g., education, gender, acculturation, interviewer experience). These findings indicate that acquiescence differs across Latino ethnic subgroups and that respondent and language factors are more influential determinants of acquiescence than survey interviewers.
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- Rachel E Davis
- Department of Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, 915 Greene Street, Room 529, Columbia, SC 29208
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- Department of Public Administration, College of Urban Planning & Public Affairs, Director, Survey Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Chicago, 412 S. Peoria Street, Chicago, IL 60607
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- Program in Survey Methodology, University of Michigan, Institute for Social Research, 426 Thompson Street, Room 4050, Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1248
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- Health Projects and Policy Manager, SC Thrive, 2211 Alpine Road Ext., Columbia, SC 29223
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Plieninger H, Heck DW. A New Model for Acquiescence at the Interface of Psychometrics and Cognitive Psychology. MULTIVARIATE BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH 2018; 53:633-654. [PMID: 29843531 DOI: 10.1080/00273171.2018.1469966] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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When measuring psychological traits, one has to consider that respondents often show content-unrelated response behavior in answering questionnaires. To disentangle the target trait and two such response styles, extreme responding and midpoint responding, Böckenholt ( 2012a ) developed an item response model based on a latent processing tree structure. We propose a theoretically motivated extension of this model to also measure acquiescence, the tendency to agree with both regular and reversed items. Substantively, our approach builds on multinomial processing tree (MPT) models that are used in cognitive psychology to disentangle qualitatively distinct processes. Accordingly, the new model for response styles assumes a mixture distribution of affirmative responses, which are either determined by the underlying target trait or by acquiescence. In order to estimate the model parameters, we rely on Bayesian hierarchical estimation of MPT models. In simulations, we show that the model provides unbiased estimates of response styles and the target trait, and we compare the new model and Böckenholt's model in a recovery study. An empirical example from personality psychology is used for illustrative purposes.
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- a Department of Psychology , University of Mannheim , Mannheim , Germany
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Kam CCS. Further Considerations in Using Items With Diverse Content to Measure Acquiescence. EDUCATIONAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL MEASUREMENT 2016; 76:164-174. [PMID: 29795861 PMCID: PMC5965579 DOI: 10.1177/0013164415586831] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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To measure the response style of acquiescence, researchers recommend the use of at least 15 items with heterogeneous content. Such an approach is consistent with its theoretical definition and is a substantial improvement over traditional methods. Nevertheless, measurement of acquiescence can be enhanced by two additional considerations: first, to ensure that it is not confounded with item valence, equal numbers of positively and negatively phrased items should be used; second, the validity of acquiescence scores can be substantially improved when derived from more than 15 items: about twice that number appears to be the minimum. These issues are illustrated empirically and recommendations are made for research practice.
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