Reminders May Increase Response Rates, but Is There a Cost? the Effects of Survey Reminders on Suboptimal Response Behavior

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dc.contributor.advisorSpitzmueller, Christiane
dc.contributor.committeeMemberNg, Vincent L.
dc.contributor.committeeMemberPavlidis, Ioannis T.
dc.contributor.committeeMemberSteinberg, Lynne
dc.creatorIngels, Daniel Joseph
dc.creator.orcid0000-0002-2305-6811
dc.date.accessioned2020-06-07T03:41:27Z
dc.date.available2020-06-07T03:41:27Z
dc.date.createdMay 2020
dc.date.issued2020-05
dc.date.submittedMay 2020
dc.date.updated2020-06-07T03:41:27Z
dc.description.abstractOrganizational survey researchers and practitioners must be thoughtful about the methods used to encourage potential survey participants to complete organizational surveys. One of the most common tools used is the survey reminder, which is effective in improving response rates. However, little research has considered whether the responses gained after reminders have been distributed are of comparable quality to those obtained after initial survey invites were sent. Drawing on suboptimal response and nonresponse theories, I examine whether reminders lead survey participants to respond suboptimally, including through insufficient effort response and socially desirable response, as well as if reminders lead to lower survey data quality. Using survey responses from 5,900 respondents to an organizational safety survey, results from measurement and structural invariance tests and concurrent t-test analyses show that reminders are not significantly associated with response distortion or measurement variance, indicating that survey reminders do not contribute to lower survey data quality.
dc.description.departmentPsychology, Department of
dc.format.digitalOriginborn digital
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10657/6739
dc.language.isoeng
dc.rightsThe author of this work is the copyright owner. UH Libraries and the Texas Digital Library have their permission to store and provide access to this work. Further transmission, reproduction, or presentation of this work is prohibited except with permission of the author(s).
dc.subjectsurvey reminders, insufficient effort responding, socially desirable responding, measurement invariance
dc.titleReminders May Increase Response Rates, but Is There a Cost? the Effects of Survey Reminders on Suboptimal Response Behavior
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dc.type.genreThesis
thesis.degree.collegeCollege of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
thesis.degree.departmentPsychology, Department of
thesis.degree.disciplinePsychology, Industrial and Organizational
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Houston
thesis.degree.levelDoctoral
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophy

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