Exploring Item Order in Anxiety-Related Constructs: Practical Impacts of Serial Position

Autor/inn/en	Carleton, R. Nicholas; Thibodeau, Michel A.; Osborne, Jason W.; Asmundson, Gordon J. G.
Titel	Exploring Item Order in Anxiety-Related Constructs: Practical Impacts of Serial Position
Quelle	In: Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, 17 (2012) 7, (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1531-7714
Schlagwörter	Anxiety; Test Items; Serial Ordering; Measures (Individuals); Undergraduate Students; Volunteers; Adults; Test Bias; Factor Analysis; Reliability + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Angst; Test content; Testaufgabe; Ordnen; Ordnungsstruktur; Ordnungssystem; Messdaten; Freiwilliger; Testkritik; Faktorenanalyse; Reliabilität
Abstract	The present study was designed to test for item order effects by measuring four distinct constructs that contribute substantively to anxiety-related psychopathology (i.e., anxiety sensitivity, fear of negative evaluation, injury/illness sensitivity, and intolerance of uncertainty). Participants (n = 999; 71% women) were randomly assigned to complete measures for each construct presented in one of two modalities: (a) items presented cohesively as measures or (b) items presented randomly interspersed with one another. The results suggested that item order had a relatively small impact on item endorsement, response patterns, and reliabilities. The small impact was such that item order appears unlikely to influence clinical decisions related to these measures. These findings not only have implication for these and other similar measures, but further inform a long-standing debate about whether item grouping is a substantial concern in measurement. (Contains 5 tables.) (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Dr. Lawrence M. Rudner. e-mail: editor@pareonline.net; Web site: http://pareonline.net
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10