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Effects of Anonymity versus Examinee Name on a Measure of Depressive Symptoms in Adolescents
There is evidence in the literature that anonymity when investigating individual variables could increase the objectivity of the measurement of some psychosocial constructs. However, there is a significant gap in the literature on the theoretical and methodological usefulness of simultaneously asses...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9315511/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35883956 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children9070972 |
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author | Merino-Soto, César Copez-Lonzoy, Anthony Toledano-Toledano, Filiberto Nabors, Laura A. Rodrígez-Castro, Jorge Homero Hernández-Salinas, Gregorio Núñez-Benítez, Miguel Ángel |
author_facet | Merino-Soto, César Copez-Lonzoy, Anthony Toledano-Toledano, Filiberto Nabors, Laura A. Rodrígez-Castro, Jorge Homero Hernández-Salinas, Gregorio Núñez-Benítez, Miguel Ángel |
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description | There is evidence in the literature that anonymity when investigating individual variables could increase the objectivity of the measurement of some psychosocial constructs. However, there is a significant gap in the literature on the theoretical and methodological usefulness of simultaneously assessing the same measurement instrument across two groups, with one group remaining anonymous and a second group revealing identities using names. Therefore, the aim of this study was to compare the psychometric characteristics of a measure of depressive symptoms in two groups of adolescents as a consequence of identification or anonymity at the time of answering the measuring instrument. The participants were 189 adolescents from Metropolitan Lima; classrooms were randomly assigned to the identified group (n = 89; application requesting to write one’s own name) or to the anonymous group (n = 100; application under usual conditions), who responded to the Childhood Depression Inventory, short version (CDI-S). Univariate characteristics (mean, dispersion, distribution), dimensionality, reliability, and measurement invariance were analyzed. Specific results in each of the statistical and psychometric aspects evaluated indicated strong psychometric similarity. The practical and ethical implications of the present results for professional and research activity are discussed. |
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spelling | pubmed-93155112022-07-27 Effects of Anonymity versus Examinee Name on a Measure of Depressive Symptoms in Adolescents Merino-Soto, César Copez-Lonzoy, Anthony Toledano-Toledano, Filiberto Nabors, Laura A. Rodrígez-Castro, Jorge Homero Hernández-Salinas, Gregorio Núñez-Benítez, Miguel Ángel Children (Basel) Article There is evidence in the literature that anonymity when investigating individual variables could increase the objectivity of the measurement of some psychosocial constructs. However, there is a significant gap in the literature on the theoretical and methodological usefulness of simultaneously assessing the same measurement instrument across two groups, with one group remaining anonymous and a second group revealing identities using names. Therefore, the aim of this study was to compare the psychometric characteristics of a measure of depressive symptoms in two groups of adolescents as a consequence of identification or anonymity at the time of answering the measuring instrument. The participants were 189 adolescents from Metropolitan Lima; classrooms were randomly assigned to the identified group (n = 89; application requesting to write one’s own name) or to the anonymous group (n = 100; application under usual conditions), who responded to the Childhood Depression Inventory, short version (CDI-S). Univariate characteristics (mean, dispersion, distribution), dimensionality, reliability, and measurement invariance were analyzed. Specific results in each of the statistical and psychometric aspects evaluated indicated strong psychometric similarity. The practical and ethical implications of the present results for professional and research activity are discussed. MDPI 2022-06-29 /pmc/articles/PMC9315511/ /pubmed/35883956 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children9070972 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Merino-Soto, César Copez-Lonzoy, Anthony Toledano-Toledano, Filiberto Nabors, Laura A. Rodrígez-Castro, Jorge Homero Hernández-Salinas, Gregorio Núñez-Benítez, Miguel Ángel Effects of Anonymity versus Examinee Name on a Measure of Depressive Symptoms in Adolescents |
title | Effects of Anonymity versus Examinee Name on a Measure of Depressive Symptoms in Adolescents |
title_full | Effects of Anonymity versus Examinee Name on a Measure of Depressive Symptoms in Adolescents |
title_fullStr | Effects of Anonymity versus Examinee Name on a Measure of Depressive Symptoms in Adolescents |
title_full_unstemmed | Effects of Anonymity versus Examinee Name on a Measure of Depressive Symptoms in Adolescents |
title_short | Effects of Anonymity versus Examinee Name on a Measure of Depressive Symptoms in Adolescents |
title_sort | effects of anonymity versus examinee name on a measure of depressive symptoms in adolescents |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9315511/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35883956 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children9070972 |
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