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Respondents' ratings of expressions from response scales: a two-country, two-language investigation on equivalence and translation
Bewertung von Äußerungen durch die Befragten bei Antwortskalen: eine Zwei-Länder- und Zwei-Sprachen-Untersuchung über Äquivalenz und Übersetzung
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Cross-cultural survey equivalence
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Zentrum für Umfragen, Methoden und Analysen -ZUMA-
Abstract "The paper presents German-American research on expressions from response scales used in cross-national and cross-lingual survey research. Respondents in the United States and Germany were asked to rate expression for the degrees of intensity they were held to express. The scales used were scales of... view more
"The paper presents German-American research on expressions from response scales used in cross-national and cross-lingual survey research. Respondents in the United States and Germany were asked to rate expression for the degrees of intensity they were held to express. The scales used were scales of agreement, importance and for/against. The findings of the study raise as many questions as they answer. Translation-based pairings of expressions across English and German work well but not perfectly. Symmetrical response scales often lead to artificial-sounding 'scalespeak' constructions: their effect on scale responses is unknown. Well-matched translation pairings were sometimes differently scored across the populations. Germans and Americans differed in the range of scale points they employed and in the range of vocabulary used to 'explain' expressions. The study is seen as a first step towards understanding cross-national response scale issues." (author's abstract)... view less
Keywords
German language; North America; data collection method; Federal Republic of Germany; questionnaire; translation; United States of America; survey; scale construction; English language; empirical social research; language usage; response behavior
Classification
Methods and Techniques of Data Collection and Data Analysis, Statistical Methods, Computer Methods
Method
empirical; quantitative empirical
Collection Title
Cross-cultural survey equivalence
Editor
Harkness, Janet
Document language
English
Publication Year
1998
City
Mannheim
Page/Pages
p. 159-184
Series
ZUMA-Nachrichten Spezial, 3
ISBN
3-924220-13-1
Status
Published Version; reviewed
Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications