A mixed-mode sensitive research on cannabis use and sexual addiction: improving self-reporting by means of indirect questioning techniques

Pier Francesco Perri (), Beatriz Cobo Rodríguez () and María del Mar Rueda García ()
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Pier Francesco Perri: University of Calabria
Beatriz Cobo Rodríguez: University of Granada
María del Mar Rueda García: University of Granada

Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, 2018, vol. 52, issue 4, No 8, 1593-1611

Abstract: Abstract In this article, we describe the methods employed and the results obtained from a mixed-mode “sensitive research” conducted in Spain to estimate certain aspects concerning patterns of cannabis consumption and sexual addiction among university students. Three different data-collection methods are considered and compared: direct questioning, randomized response technique and item sum technique. It is shown that posing direct questions to obtain sensitive data produces significantly lower estimates of the surveyed characteristics than do indirect questioning methods. From the analysis, it emerges that male students seem to be more affected by sex addiction than female students while for cannabis consumption there is no evidence of a predominant gender effect.

Keywords: Bar-Lev et al. (2004) method; Item sum technique; Mixed-mode surveys; Privacy protection (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/s11135-017-0537-0

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