ArticleCurrent issues in personality psychology2024
Who agrees more? The role of age, education, and the ability to solve verbal analogies in acquiescence.
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Abstract
backgroundAcquiescence as one of the response styles is the participant's tendency to shift answers to agreement rather than to disagreement regardless of the items' content. Acquiescence together with other response styles could be a serious threat to the results of research. It can be affected by several individual characteristics including cognitive abilities. We explored the relationship between the ability to solve verbal analogies, age, education, and acquiescence. PARTICIPANTS AND PROCEDURE: The sample contained 210 participants, 109 men and 101 women with age ranging from 17 to 70 (
resultsWe found a significant relationship between acquiescence and age with a medium effect and non-significant relationships between acquiescence, the ability to solve verbal analogies, and education.
conclusionsEducation seems not to be an adequate variable as a proxy for cognitive variables, and the ability to solve verbal analogies probably does not affect acquiescence in general. However, the existence of a negative relationship between age and acquiescence is quite surprising, and it could be caused by better developed self-identity of older participants.
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