Does the choice of header images influence responses? Findings from a web survey on students' housing situation

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Barth, Alice

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Abstract	Online questionnaires can easily be complemented by logos, graphics and images. Yet visual cues can influence responses – adding images to survey questions has proven to alter reported frequencies and attitudinal judgments. Our experiment, which was embedded in a web survey on students’ housing conditions (N=4,676), addresses the effects of continuous exposure to a content-related image. Participants saw one of three different residential scenarios or no image, respectively, in the header of each page throughout the whole survey. It is expected that different pictures influence self-rated satisfaction with the current housing situation and the evaluation of city attributes. Contrary to the hypotheses, the choice of image has no effect on answers to attitudinal questions. Possible implications of image positioning and repetition are discussed in the light of this surprising finding.
Thesaurusschlagwörter	response behavior; online survey; picture; visual perception; graphic arts; electronic data processing; housing conditions; survey research
Klassifikation	Erhebungstechniken und Analysetechniken der Sozialwissenschaften
Sprache Dokument	Englisch
Publikationsjahr	2014
Seitenangabe	9 S.
Zeitschriftentitel	Survey Methods: Insights from the Field (2014)
DOI	http://dx.doi.org/10.13094/SMIF-2014-00005
ISSN	2296-4754
Status	Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz	Creative Commons - Namensnennung, Nicht kommerz., Keine Bearbeitung