Self-Report Measures: An Overview of Concerns and Limitations of Questionnaire Use in Occupational Stress Research

T. Razavi

Working Papers from University of Southampton - Department of Accounting and Management Science

Abstract: As in the case with many domains of organizational behaviuor, occupational stress research has for many years been characterised by the use of self-report methodologies, in particular the written quetionnaire, as the primary means of data collection. Reliance on self-report for the measurement of both dependent and independent variables raises concern about the validity of causal conclusions for a range of reasons, including systematic response distortions, method variance and monomethod bias, and the psychometric properties of quetionnaire scales.

Keywords: BEHAVIOUR; STRESS; QUESTIONNAIRES (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C8 C9 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23 pages
Date: 2001
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