Respondents' ratings of expressions from response scales: a two-country, two-language investigation on equivalence and translation
Abstract: "The paper presents German-American research on expressions from response scales used in cross-national and cross-lingual survey research. Respondents in the United States and Germany were asked to rate expression for the degrees of intensity they were held to express. The scales used were scales of agreement, importance and for/against. The findings of the study raise as many questions as they answer. Translation-based pairings of expressions across English and German work well but not perfectly. Symmetrical response scales often lead to artificial-sounding 'scalespeak' constructions: their effect on scale responses is unknown. Well-matched translation pairings were sometimes differently scored across the populations. Germans and Americans differed in the range of scale points they employed and in the range of vocabulary used to 'explain' expressions. The study is seen as a first step towards understanding cross-national response scale issues." (author's abstract)
- Weitere Titel
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Bewertung von Äußerungen durch die Befragten bei Antwortskalen: eine Zwei-Länder- und Zwei-Sprachen-Untersuchung über Äquivalenz und Übersetzung
- Standort
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
- Umfang
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Online-Ressource, 159-184 S.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Anmerkungen
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Veröffentlichungsversion
begutachtet
In: Harkness, Janet (Hg.): Cross-cultural survey equivalence. 1998. S. 159-184. ISBN 3-924220-13-1
- Erschienen in
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Cross-cultural survey equivalence ; Bd. 3
ZUMA-Nachrichten Spezial ; Bd. 3
- Klassifikation
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Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Mannheim
- (wann)
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1998
- Urheber
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Mohler, Peter Ph
Smith, Tom W.
Harkness, Janet
- Beteiligte Personen und Organisationen
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Harkness, Janet
Zentrum für Umfragen, Methoden und Analysen -ZUMA-
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-49736-6
- Rechteinformation
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Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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Beteiligte
- Mohler, Peter Ph
- Smith, Tom W.
- Harkness, Janet
- Zentrum für Umfragen, Methoden und Analysen -ZUMA-
Entstanden
- 1998
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