Alleviating world suffering: the challenge of negative quality of life
In: Social indicators research series volume 67
In: Social indicators research series volume 67
World Affairs Online
In: Social indicators research series 56
In: Public opinion quarterly: journal of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, Band 62, Heft 4, S. 623-632
ISSN: 0033-362X
Draws on an experiment conducted in four education centers for nontraditional & low-performing secondary students in greater Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN, in 1996 to determine whether adolescents are more honest about sensitive self-disclosure in computerized or paper-&-pencil self-administrated questionnaires. Subjects (Ss)(N = 368 adolescents, age 12+) answered items about drug use, sexual activity, criminal behavior, self-harm, family substance abuse, domestic violence, & sexual abuse/violence via either computer or paper. Analysis finds that Ss using paper reported more of most behaviors/circumstances than did those on computers. This effect was complicated by a distance effect for computer users: those sitting very close to other students made the fewest reports. It is concluded that the lack of privacy available in most computer laboratories may cause adolescent survey Ss to underreport sensitive information. 2 Tables, 21 References. E. Blackwell
In: Public opinion quarterly: journal of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, Band 62, Heft 4, S. 623-632
ISSN: 0033-362X
In: American behavioral scientist: ABS, Band 20, Heft 3
ISSN: 0002-7642
In: Public opinion quarterly: journal of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, Band 33, Heft 3, S. 380-398
ISSN: 0033-362X
2 related propositions are examined: whether the proportion of the electorate construing pol in ideological terms remains fairly constant from one election to the next - ie, whether ideological thinking is influenced by characteristics of the voter more than by characteristics of the pol'al environment: & whether the 1964 election, defined by B. Goldwater as an ideological plebiscite, was recognized as such by the public. The analysis, based on Survey Res Center data, suggests that, indeed, many people understood Goldwater only too well, & casts doubt on the hypothesis that ideological thinking is an invariant attribute of voters. In addition, an attempt is made to assess the direction of ideological sentiment in the US pop. AA.