7.1: Self-report techniques

Question 1

The stress scale was given to participants as a questionnaire.

Explain one advantage and one weakness of doing this in comparison to an interview (4 marks)

Answer 1

One advantage of giving the stress scale as a questionnaire, as opposed to an interview, would be a lack of investigator effects

Question 2

The stress scale was given to participants as a questionnaire.

Explain one advantage and one weakness of doing this in comparison to an interview (4 marks).
One advantage of giving the stress scale as a questionnaire, as opposed to an interview, would be a lack of investigator effects, how?

Answer 2

One advantage of giving the stress scale as a questionnaire, as opposed to an interview, would be a lack of investigator effects, because a questionnaire could be completed without a researcher being present to possibly influence a participant’s responses

Question 3

The stress scale was given to participants as a questionnaire.

Explain one advantage and one weakness of doing this in comparison to an interview (4 marks).
One advantage of giving the stress scale as a questionnaire, as opposed to an interview, would be a lack of investigator effects, because a questionnaire could be completed without a researcher being present to possibly influence a participant’s responses.

One weakness

Answer 3

One weakness would be that as no researcher is present, follow-up questions could not be asked to pursue interesting answers further