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Paper or plastic? Data equivalence in paper and electronic diaries
- Source :
- Psychological Methods. 11:87-105
- Publication Year :
- 2006
- Publisher :
- American Psychological Association (APA), 2006.
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Abstract
- Concern has been raised about the lack of participant compliance in diary studies that use paper-and-pencil as opposed to electronic formats. Three studies explored the magnitude of compliance problems and their effects on data quality. Study 1 used random signals to elicit diary reports and found close matches to self-reported completion times, matches that could not plausibly have been fabricated. Studies 2 and 3 examined the psychometric and statistical equivalence of data obtained with paper versus electronic formats. With minor exceptions, both methods yielded data that were equivalent psychometrically and in patterns of findings. These results serve to at least partially mollify concern about the validity of paper diary methods.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Paper
Self-assessment
Self-Assessment
Experience sampling method
Time Factors
Adolescent
Psychometrics
Writing
Emotions
computer.software_genre
Diary studies
Medical Records
Bias
Surveys and Questionnaires
Humans
Interpersonal Relations
Mathematical Computing
Equivalence (measure theory)
Data collection
business.industry
Multilevel model
Reproducibility of Results
Computers, Handheld
Data Interpretation, Statistical
Data quality
Patient Compliance
Female
Psychology (miscellaneous)
Artificial intelligence
Psychology
business
Social psychology
computer
Natural language processing
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 19391463 and 1082989X
- Volume :
- 11
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Psychological Methods
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....9ee8a2421fea3407a4af54dcc9309581