Anchoring vignette: the good, the bad and the ugly

Chen, Yueyang

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Description

Title

Anchoring vignette: the good, the bad and the ugly

Author(s)

Chen, Yueyang

Issue Date

2022-12-19

Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)

Drasgow, Fritz

Committee Member(s)

Rounds, James

Department of Study

Psychology

Discipline

Psychology

Degree Granting Institution

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Degree Name

M.S.

Degree Level

Thesis

Keyword(s)

• personality measure
• response bias
• anchoring vignette
• forced choice

Abstract

Self-report Likert-type personality measures have long co-existed with response styles and reference group biases. These issues, when unaddressed, can influence the reliability, validity, and cross-cultural comparability of personality scales. A posterior bias-correction method promised to address these challenges called anchoring vignette was tested in the current study. Using three samples collected in China and the US, the author examined the bias-correction power of anchoring vignette in the following scenarios: 1) when vignettes are written in a domain-specific vs. domain-general fashion. 2) when vignette assumptions are violated vs. not violated. 3) when vignettes are compared to forced choice measures, -- an a priori bias-prevention method. Results showed that domain specificity influenced the validity of vignette-recoded data, with domain-specific vignette being the more desirable approach. Measurement properties of the vignette-recoded data were negatively influenced by the violation of vignette equivalence assumption. And the overall bias-correction power of anchoring vignette is inferior to forced choice.

Graduation Semester

2023-05

Type of Resource

Thesis

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Copyright 2023 Yueyang Chen

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