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Satisficing in Mental Health Care Patients: The Effect of Cognitive Symptoms on Self-Report Data Quality.
Article in Assessment, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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8 citing papers in PubMed.
- Testing the Impact of Variations in Administration on the Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (K10).Assessment · 2025Article
- Can you tell people's cognitive ability level from their response patterns in questionnaires?Behavior research methods · 2024Article
- Response times in Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA): shedding light on the response process with a drift diffusion model.Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.) · 2024Article
- Syndromes associated with frontotemporal lobar degeneration change response patterns on visual analogue scales.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Quality of Survey Responses at Older Ages Predicts Cognitive Decline and Mortality Risk.Innovation in aging · 2022Article
- The Relationship of Insufficient Effort Responding and Response Styles: An Online Experiment.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Subtle mistakes in self-report surveys predict future transition to dementia.Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2021Article
- Opening the 'Black Box': An Overview of Methods to Investigate the Decision-Making Process in Choice-Based Surveys.The patient · 2020Review
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Abstract
Respondents may use satisficing (i.e., nonoptimal) strategies when responding to self-report questionnaires. These satisficing strategies become more likely with decreasing motivation and/or cognitive ability (Krosnick, 1991). Considering that cognitive deficits are characteristic of depressive and anxiety disorders, depressed and anxious patients may be prone to satisficing. Using data from the Netherland's Study of Depression and Anxiety (
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