Author, as appears in the article.: Ferrando P

Department: Psicologia

URV's Author/s: Ferrando Piera, Pere Joan

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Abstract: This study assessed the hypothesis that the response time to an item increases as the positions of the item and the respondent on the continuum of the trait that is measured draw closer together. This hypothesis has previously been stated by several authors, but so far it does not seem to have been empirically assessed in a rigorous way. A computerized version of a 22-item two-scale personality questionnaire was administered to a sample of 286 respondents. The item responses were fitted using the two-parameter IRT model and a person-item distance measure was derived. Product-moment correlations between the log-response times and the person-item distances were obtained over respondents within each item. In both scales all the correlations were negative, as expected from the theory. However, most of the correlations (effect sizes) were small. The potential usefulness of the results for personality measurement is discussed.

Thematic Areas: Statistics and probability Psychology, experimental Psychology (miscellaneous) Psicología Experimental and cognitive psychology Developmental and educational psychology Ciencias sociales Ciencias humanas Arts and humanities (miscellaneous)

licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/

ISSN: 0211-2159

Author's mail: perejoan.ferrando@urv.cat

Author identifier: 0000-0002-3133-5466

Last page: 148

Record's date: 2023-04-15

Journal volume: 27

Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

Link to the original source: https://www.uv.es/psicologica/articulos1.06/7FERRANDO.pdf

Licence document URL: http://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/

Papper original source: Psicologica. 27 (1): 137-148

APA: Ferrando P (2006). Person-item distance and response time: An empirical study in personality measurement. Psicologica, 27(1), 137-148

Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Journal publication year: 2006

First page: 137

Publication Type: Journal Publications