NDLI: Mode of administration and interviewer effects in self-reported symptoms of anxiety and depression

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Author	Moum, Torbjørn
Copyright Year	1998
Abstract	This study investigates whether mode of administration and the interviewer's age and sex affect results obtained with a commonly used rating scale for symptoms anxiety and depression (HSCL-25). Identical versions of the scale was administered orally by experienced interviewers, either face-to-face or by phone. Another sample received self-administered questionnaires that were completed at home and returned by mail. Subjects were a total of 13,850 Norwegian adults participating in two broad population surveys. Results seem to confirm the standing presumption that in-person interviews are more vulnerable to socially desirable responding (SDR) than self-administered modes: Two to three times as many “probable cases” of psychological distress are identified with the self-administered mode compared to the interview modes. However, the SDR generated by mode of administration apparently occurs in subgroups of respondents not identified by extant measures of social desirability (the Crowne-Marlowe scale, etc.) as being high on SDR: In the present study the young and well-educated respondents appear particularly prone to under-report symptoms with the interview modes. The impact of sex and age of interviewer on symptom reports generally appears weak. However, young male interviewers receive very few symptom reports compared to other interviewers.
Starting Page	279
Ending Page	318
Page Count	40
File Format	PDF
ISSN	03038300
Journal	Social Indicators Research
Volume Number	45
Issue Number	1-3
e-ISSN	15730921
Language	English
Publisher	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Publisher Date	1998-01-01
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Public Health/Gesundheitswesen Quality of Life Research Microeconomics Sociology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Sociology and Political Science Arts and Humanities Developmental and Educational Psychology

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