Does the Survey Mode Affect the Association Between Subjective Well-being and its Determinants? An Experimental Comparison Between Face-to-Face and Web Mode

Giorgio Piccitto (), Aart C. Liefbroer and Tom Emery
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Giorgio Piccitto: Bocconi University
Aart C. Liefbroer: Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute
Tom Emery: Erasmus University Rotterdam

Journal of Happiness Studies, 2022, vol. 23, issue 7, No 15, 3461 pages

Abstract: Abstract Subjective well-being research increasingly uses web surveys to understand how subjective well-being indicators are related to other concepts of interest. Although we know that mean scores on these indicators may differ between modes, we know little about whether a move to web will influence the conclusions we draw about our conceptual models. This study uses data from a unique mixed-mode survey collected in Croatia and Germany as part of the Generations and Gender Programme to examine whether the relationships between a range of subjective well-being indicators and a set of objective and subjective determinants differ between respondents answering these questions in face-to-face or web mode. Although respondents report lower subjective well-being in web than in face-to-face mode, the relationships between these variables and a range of objective and subjective indicators are relatively stable across modes. This suggests that substantive conclusions about antecedents of subjective well-being do not depend on whether data are collected via a face-to-face interview or through web survey.

Keywords: Mode effect; Subjective well-being; Web survey; Face-to-face survey; Social desirability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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