CAPHRI, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
BMC Public Health. 2010 Nov 23;10:720. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-10-720.
These studies sought to investigate the relation between social desirability and self-reported health risk behaviors (e.g., alcohol use, drug use, smoking) in web-based research.
Three longitudinal studies (Study 1: N = 5612, 51% women; Study 2: N = 619, 60%; Study 3: N = 846, 59%) among randomly selected members of two online panels (Dutch; German) using several social desirability measures (Marlowe-Crowne Scale; Balanced Inventory of Desirable Responding; The Social Desirability Scale-17) were conducted.
Social desirability was not associated with self-reported current behavior or behavior frequency. Socio-demographics (age; sex; education) did not moderate the effect of social desirability on self-reported measures regarding health risk behaviors.
The studies at hand provided no convincing evidence to throw doubt on the usefulness of the Internet as a medium to collect self-reports on health risk behaviors.
这些研究旨在探讨网络研究中社会期望与自我报告的健康风险行为(如饮酒、吸毒、吸烟)之间的关系。
使用多种社会期望测量方法(Marlowe-Crowne 量表、平衡的理想反应量表、社会期望量表-17),对两个在线面板(荷兰语、德语)中随机选择的成员进行了三项纵向研究(研究 1:N=5612,女性占 51%;研究 2:N=619,占 60%;研究 3:N=846,占 59%)。
社会期望与自我报告的当前行为或行为频率无关。社会人口统计学因素(年龄、性别、教育程度)并不能调节社会期望对健康风险行为自我报告测量的影响。
目前的研究没有提供令人信服的证据,对互联网作为收集健康风险行为自我报告的媒介的有效性提出质疑。