Self-report techniques
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- Created on: 02-11-16 14:52
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- Self-Report Techniques
- Questionnaire
- Pre-set list of questions to which the participant responds
- Used to assess thoughts and feelings
- May be used to assess the dependent variable
- Closed questions
- Fixed range of answers (yes/no, 1-10 scale)
- Produce quantitative data
- Quantitative data is easy to analyse but may lack depth
- Open questions
- No fixed range of answers (who, what, where, when, why)
- Qualitative data that has lots of depth but is difficult to analyse
- Interview
- Structured
- Pre-determined questions
- Like a face to face questionnaire
- Unstructured
- No set questions
- More like a conversation about a topic
- Interviewee encouraged to expand and elaborate on their answers
- Semi-structured
- A list of questions in advance
- Interviewer may ask follow-up questions
- Structured
- Evaluation: Questionnaire
- Strengths
- Cost effective
- Can gather large amounts of data quickly
- Can be completed without researchers present
- Straight forward data to analyse
- Limitations
- Responses may not be truthful
- Response bias (respondents reply in a similar way)
- Strengths
- Evaluation: Interview
- Structured
- Easy to replicate
- Reduces differences between interviews
- Difficult to deviate from topic or elaborate
- Unstructured
- More flexibility than structured
- Interviewer can follow-up points
- Difficult to analyse
- Risk of untruthful responses
- Structured
- Questionnaire
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