Unintended behavioral consequences due to repeated measurement

Bach, Ruben L.

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URL:	https://ub-madoc.bib.uni-mannheim.de/44314
URN:	urn:nbn:de:bsz:180-madoc-443140
Document Type:	Doctoral dissertation
Year of publication:	2018
Place of publication:	Mannheim
University:	Universität Mannheim
Evaluator:	Kreuter, Frauke
Date of oral examination:	14 March 2018
Publication language:	English
Institution:	School of Social Sciences > Statistik u. Sozialwissenschaftliche Methodenlehre (Kreuter 2014-)
Subject:	300 Social sciences, sociology, anthropology
Subject headings (SWD):	Umfrage , Empirische Sozialforschung , Statistik
Keywords (English):	Respondent conditioning , Survey data , Survey methodology
Abstract:	This dissertation deals with the various ways how retrieving information from respondents in surveys may affect their future reporting behavior and/or actual behavior. Such effects, called respondent conditioning, can take various forms. For example, respondents of a panel survey may recall having answered the same questions before and report differently in future waves of the same survey. Similarly, responding to questions about certain behaviors may work as a stimulus that encourages some respondents to change their behavior. I provide a framework for the analysis of such conditioning effects and study their various forms in several social science surveys.