Self Report Techniques Flashcards
Self-report techniques
Self-report techniques Questionnaires Close questions Open questions Interview structured interviews Unstructured interview
Self-report techniques
Research method which requires the participant to report on themselves
Advantages of self Report techniques
Allows participant to talk about thoughts and feelings
Disadvantages of self-report techniques
Participants being honest and participants may feel that they need to give a socially desirable answers
Questionnaires
A self-report method where participants are presented a set of predetermined written questions
Advantages of questionnaires
Cost-effective
Reduced involvement of the researcher
Disadvantages of questionnaires
Imu be difficult to phrase questions in a way that they are not open to interpretation
Close questions
Questions to the participants to respond in certain ways
Advantages of closed questions
Goodman asking questions with clear answers.
Provides control by requiring answers in a certain way
Disadvantages of close questions
Respondent may have an answer which is not there
Open questions
Participants are allowed to answer freely without any restriction
Advantages of open questions
Good way of accessing motivations and feelings
Disadvantages of open questions
Provides qualitative of data which is difficult to analyse and more time consuming
Interviews
Self-report method where participants answer face to face questions
Advantages of interviews
Is a good source of qualitative data
