ArticleMethoden, daten, analysen2025
Probing in Cognitive Interviews can Promote Acquiescence.
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Cognitive interviewing is widely used to pretest survey questionnaires and is considered a best practice (e.g., Willis, 2005, 2018; Beatty & Willis, 2007). However, the method has been controversial because, among other concerns, it requires interviewers to probe respondents for more detail or clarity about their experience answering draft survey questions which may lead them to report "problems" they have not actually experienced (e.g., Conrad & Blair, 2009). The present study investigates this possibility from the perspective of Acquiescent Response Style (ARS) - the tendency for survey respondents to select positive responses such as "yes" or "strongly agree," irrespective of the question's content (e.g., Baumgartner & Steenkamp, 2001). For example, respondents in a cognitive interview might affirm experiencing a problem mentioned in or implied by an interviewer's probe even if they have not actually experienced it. We embedded a probing experiment in a cognitive interview pretest of a health survey in which respondents participated in cognitive interviews that used either
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