A cross-national comparison of extreme response style measures
Robert A. Peterson
University of Texas at Austin
Pablo Rhi-Perez
University of Texas at Brownsville
Gerald Albaum
University of New Mexico
Introduction
Response styles, which have traditionally been defined as systematic tendencies to respond to rating scales independently of the content of the scales (e.g. Paulhus 1991), have been extensively studied for more than half a century. Initially considered to be a form of measurement error to be avoided or addressed statistically, response styles were for many years investigated as manifestations of individual differences, especially inherent personality characteristics (e.g. Hamilton 1968). More...