Riva Giuseppe, Teruzzi Tiziana, Anolli Luigi
Applied Technology for Neuro-Psychology Laboratory, Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Milan, Italy.
Cyberpsychol Behav. 2003 Feb;6(1):73-80. doi: 10.1089/109493103321167983.
The Internet can be an effective medium for the posting, exchange, and collection of information in psychology-related research and data. The relative ease and inexpensiveness of creating and maintaining Web-based applications, associated with the simplicity of use via the graphic-user interface format of form-based surveys, can establish a new research frontier for the social and behavioral sciences. To explore the possible use of Internet tools in psychological research, this study compared Web-based assessment techniques with traditional paper-based methods of different measures of Internet attitudes and behaviors in an Italian sample. The collected data were analyzed to identify both differences between the two samples and in the psychometric characteristics of the questionnaires. Even if we found significant differences between the two samples in the Internet attitudes and behaviors, no relevant differences were found in the psychometric properties of the different questionnaires. This result, similar to the ones previously obtained in Web-based assessments of personality constructs, is even more interesting given the lack of control on the characteristics of the online sample. These finding suggests that, if sampling control and validity assessment is provided, Internet-based questionnaires can be a suitable alternative to more traditional paper-based measures.
互联网可以成为发布、交流和收集心理学相关研究及数据信息的有效媒介。创建和维护基于网络的应用程序相对简便且成本低廉，再加上通过基于表单的调查的图形用户界面格式使用起来很简单，这可为社会科学和行为科学建立一个新的研究前沿。为了探索互联网工具在心理学研究中的可能用途，本研究在一个意大利样本中，将基于网络的评估技术与测量不同网络态度和行为的传统纸质方法进行了比较。对收集到的数据进行分析，以确定两个样本之间的差异以及问卷的心理测量特征。即使我们发现两个样本在网络态度和行为方面存在显著差异，但在不同问卷的心理测量属性方面未发现相关差异。鉴于对在线样本的特征缺乏控制，这一结果与先前在基于网络的人格结构评估中获得的结果相似，就更有意思了。这些发现表明，如果提供抽样控制和效度评估，基于互联网的问卷可以成为更传统的纸质测量方法的合适替代方案。
