TY - JOUR
T1 - Examination of the validity of instructed response items in identifying careless respondents
AU - Kam, Chester Chun Seng
AU - Chan, Gabriel Hoi huen
N1 - Funding Information:
The current research is financially funded by Multi-Year Research Grant ( MYRG2015–00076-FED ) by the University of Macau awarded to the first author.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2018/7/15
Y1 - 2018/7/15
N2 - This study asks whether instructed response items validly detect careless respondents. We found that instructed response items have high internal consistency, good convergent validity with other types of carelessness detectors (synonyms, antonyms, and odd-even index), and good discriminant validity with acquiescence. Excluding careless respondents based on increasingly strict cutoff values leads to stronger negative correlations between regular and reverse-keyed items. Overall, the results favor the continued use of instructed response items to identify careless respondents.
AB - This study asks whether instructed response items validly detect careless respondents. We found that instructed response items have high internal consistency, good convergent validity with other types of carelessness detectors (synonyms, antonyms, and odd-even index), and good discriminant validity with acquiescence. Excluding careless respondents based on increasingly strict cutoff values leads to stronger negative correlations between regular and reverse-keyed items. Overall, the results favor the continued use of instructed response items to identify careless respondents.
KW - Careless responding
KW - Instructed response items
KW - Validity
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U2 - 10.1016/j.paid.2018.03.022
DO - 10.1016/j.paid.2018.03.022
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85043518126
SN - 0191-8869
VL - 129
SP - 83
EP - 87
JO - Personality and Individual Differences
JF - Personality and Individual Differences
ER -