Who Continues to Participate at Stage Two of a Longitudinal Study?
Keywords:
reflexive characteristic adaptations, meta-traits, attitudes towards traits
Abstract
The aim of this study was to examine whether personality traits predict sample depletion, which occurs in the studies with the two stages of data collection. Methodologically, the problem was studied in terms of the five-factor theory of personality (McCrae, Costa, 2013). The study was conducted in two stages. At Stage 1, 1030 students participated in a psychological study in classrooms, where they fulfilled the main battery of the tests. At Stage 2 the participants completed a questionnaire off-site, and 277 participants of the main sample emailed a file with the completed test to the researcher. Agreeableness, conscientiousness, and introversion predicted that the participants will take part at Stage 2. The logistic regression analysis estimated the contribution of the reflective characteristic adaptations – meta-traits and attitudes to traits – to these effects. Meta-traits are the individuals’ judgments on how their personality traits are perceived by the significant others, in our case – by parents. Attitudes toward traits are the valent (positive/ negative) evaluations of these traits by the individuals without the direct reference to their personality. Reflective characteristic adaptations incrementally predicted to the participation at Stage 2, while the role of the traits themselves was eliminated. The depletion of the sample was predicted by various meta-traits and attitudes toward various traits. The ambivalent role of attitudes toward traits and meta-traits has been further discussed in terms of the reflective-impulsive model by F. Strack and R. Deutsch. A model was empirically supported, in which the personality traits (extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness) related with depletion of the sample indirectly, via reflective characteristic adaptations. Relatively small values of the coefficients of determination presumes that the role of personality characteristics in sample depletion is rather small, but yet substantial.
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3. Ashton, M. C., & Lee, K. (2007). Empirical, theoretical, and practical advantages of the HEXACO model of personality structure. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 11, 150-166. https://doi.org/10.1177/1088868306294907
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5. Browne, M. W. (1984). Asymptotically distribution-free methods for the analysis of covariance structures. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 37, 62-83. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2044-8317.1984.tb00789.x
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30. Ployhart, R. E., & Vandenberg, R. J. (2010). Longitudinal research: The theory, design, and analysis of change. Journal of Management, 36, 94-120. https://doi.org/10.1177/0149206309352110
31. Richter, D., Körtner, J. L., & Saßenroth, D. (2014). Personality has minor effects on panel attrition. Journal of Research in Personality, 53, 31-35. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2014.08.001
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37. Saßenroth, D. (2013). The impact of personality on participation decisions in surveys: A contribution to the discussion on unit nonresponse. Berlin: Springer.
38. Satherley, N., Milojev, P., Greaves, L. M., Huang, Y., Osborne, D., Bulbulia, J., & Sibley, C. G. (2015). Demographic and psychological predictors of panel attrition: Evidence from the New Zealand Attitudes and Values Study. PLoS ONE, 10, e0121950. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0121950
39. Schräpler, J.-P., Schupp, J., & Wagner, G. G. (2010). Individual and neighborhood determinants of survey nonresponse: An analysis based on a new subsample of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), microgeographic characteristics and survey-based interviewer characteristics (SSRN Scholarly Paper No. ID 1588730). Rochester, NY: Social Science Research Network. Retrieved from http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=1588730
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41. Shchebetenko, S. (2016). Reflexive characteristic adaptations within the five-factor theory: Between basic tendencies and external outcomes. Personality and Individual Differences, 101, 35-41. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2016.05.055
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44. Shchebetenko, S., & Tutikova, E. (2015). “The picture is good because openness to experience is good”: The mediating role of attitudes toward personality traits in individual differences in painting preferences. Psychology. Journal of Higher School of Economics, 12(4), 122-141. (in Russian)
45. Singer, E., & Bossarte, R. M. (2006). Incentives for survey participation: When are they “coercive”? American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 31, 411-418. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amepre.2006.07.013
46. Smith, E. R., & DeCoster, J. (2000). Dual-process models in social and cognitive psychology: Conceptual integration and links to underlying memory systems. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 4, 108-131. https://doi.org/10.1207/S15327957PSPR0402_01
47. Strack, F., & Deutsch, R. (2004). Reflective and impulsive determinants of social behavior. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 8, 220-247. https://doi.org/10.1207/s15327957pspr0803_1
48. Treneva, M. S., Munblit, D. B., & Pampura, A. N. (2014). Parents’ voluntary consent to participate in research: Biased sampling in relation to the population? Rossiyskii Vestnik Perinatologii i Pediatrii [Russian Bulletin of Perinatology and Pediatrics], 59(1), 82-87. (in Russian)
49. Vlasov, V. V. (2007). Systematic errors and interfering factors. Mezhdunarodnyi Zhurnal Meditsinskoi Praktiki, 3, 18-29. (in Russian)
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ЩебетенкоС. А. (2018). Who Continues to Participate at Stage Two of a Longitudinal Study?. Psychology. Journal of the Higher School of Economics, 14(4), 698-716. https://doi.org/10.17323/1813-8918-2017-4-698-716
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