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Robinson-Cimpian, Joseph P. – Educational Researcher, 2014
This article introduces novel sensitivity-analysis procedures for investigating and reducing the bias that mischievous responders (i.e., youths who provide extreme, and potentially untruthful, responses to multiple questions) often introduce in adolescent disparity estimates based on data from self-administered questionnaires (SAQs). Mischievous…
Descriptors: Response Style (Tests), Bias, Adolescents, Questionnaires
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Verstraeten, Katrien; Vasey, Michael W.; Raes, Filip; Bijttebier, Patricia – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2009
The present study examined the relations between temperament, ruminative response style and depressive symptoms both cross-sectionally and prospectively (1 year follow-up) in a community sample of 304 seventh- through tenth-graders. First, higher levels of negative affectivity (NA), lower levels of positive affectivity (PA) and lower levels of…
Descriptors: Response Style (Tests), Personality Traits, Depression (Psychology), At Risk Persons
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Hankin, Benjamin L. – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2008
A ruminative response style has been shown to predict depressive symptoms among youth and adults, but it is unclear whether rumination is associated specifically with depression compared with co-occurring symptoms of anxiety and externalizing behaviors. This prospective, multiwave study investigated whether baseline rumination predicted…
Descriptors: Response Style (Tests), Gender Differences, Depression (Psychology), Age Differences