Abstract

HE, Jia  and  VIJVER, Fons J. R. van de. Assessment of the General Response Style: A Cross-Cultural Validation. Acta de investigación psicol [online]. 2019, vol.9, n.3, pp.14-24.  Epub Apr 24, 2020. ISSN 2007-4719.  https://doi.org/10.22201/fpsi.20074719e.2019.3.320.

Surveys that use self-reports are susceptible to response styles. The assessment and validation of response styles would benefit from a brief measure that captures the general tendency of responding. Going beyond the traditional view that response styles amount to deliberate impression management or lying, we propose to assess and conducted a validation of brief general response style (GRS) scales which are conceptualized as a trait-like communication style preference, in multiple cultural contexts. With university student data on the GRS measure, indirect measures of GRS, and personality and values, we found that (1) this direct measure of GRS showed acceptable internal consistency and comparable factor structure across countries (metric invariance); (2) although it did not correlate strongly with the indirect measure of GRS, it showed similar mean difference patterning across countries, with a lower level of GRS in China than Mexico and the Netherlands, and (3) in line with the trait-like conceptualization, the direct GRS was associated with being extravert, open, and valuing self-enhancement. We discuss the potential usefulness of the direct GRS measure in surveys involving different groups.

Keywords : General Response Style; Self-Reports; Values; Personality; Cross-Cultural.

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