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Self Reporting Techniques

Self-reporting techniques involve respondents providing answers to questionnaire items about their characteristics or behaviors either orally or in writing. The investigator distributes questionnaires to respondents in person, by post, or phone. Interviews involve an interviewer directly asking questions to an interviewee face-to-face. Examples of self-reporting techniques include questionnaires, opinionaires, checklists, interest inventories, and attitude scales. Advantages are answers are directly from respondents and large amounts of data can be collected quickly and cheaply, while disadvantages include responses may not be fully honest and reliability is often low.

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Self Reporting Techniques

Self-reporting techniques involve respondents providing answers to questionnaire items about their characteristics or behaviors either orally or in writing. The investigator distributes questionnaires to respondents in person, by post, or phone. Interviews involve an interviewer directly asking questions to an interviewee face-to-face. Examples of self-reporting techniques include questionnaires, opinionaires, checklists, interest inventories, and attitude scales. Advantages are answers are directly from respondents and large amounts of data can be collected quickly and cheaply, while disadvantages include responses may not be fully honest and reliability is often low.

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Self Reporting Techniques

Roshlin Sheeba Rani D.R


Assistant Professor of Physical
Science
Self reporting Techniques
• Self reporting Techniques is the
respondent himself provides answers to
items in the given questionnaire,
concerning his characteristics or
behavior, either orally or in the written
form.
• The investigator gathers answers from the
respondent by reaching out the questionnaire
to them either in person ,through post or
phone.
• In interview the interviewer asks questions to
the interviewee and gets his answers directly
in a face to face situation, besides noticing his
mood, likes, dislikes, fears etc.
Examples for self reporting techniques

• Questionnaire
• Opinionaire
• Check list
• Interest inventory
• Attitude Scale
• Woodworth’s Personal data sheet
• Bells Adjustment Inventory
• The Minnesotta Multiphasic Personality
inventory(MMPI)
• S.P. Ahluwalia’s Teaching attitude Inventory
• Strong – Campbell interest inventory
• Thurston’s Occupational Interest Inventory
Advantages of Self – reporting Techniques

• Answers are obtained directly from the


respondents, the gathered responses/
information are highly valid.

• Large amount of data can be obtained very


quickly and cheaply.
• Left out data could be easily obtained back,
hence the data collected using self reporting
techniques are highly reliable.

• Data obtained form a closed form of questions


can be easily tabulated and analyzed
Disadvantages of Self Reporting
Techniques
• We cannot expect that all the respondents will
be giving answers or expressing their ideas to
items in the self reporting device completely
and honestly without any hiding.
• The reliability of the data collected using self
reporting devices is mostly low.
• There are chances for questions for being
misunderstood and answered accordingly.
• The answers provided by the respondents may
be influenced by their mood and emotions at
the time of answering the self reporting device.
• Most of the self reporting devices contain fixed
choice of questions and lack f.lexibility.
• No opportunity is given to include
supplementary .
• Low response rate.
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