Exploring the Behavioral Dynamics of the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure: The Role of Relational Contextual Cues Versus Relational Coherence Indicators as Response Options

2016 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 395-403 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Maloney ◽  
Dermot Barnes-Holmes
2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia M. Power ◽  
Dermot Barnes-Holmes ◽  
Yvonne Barnes-Holmes ◽  
Ian T. Stewart

Author(s):  
Tessa Peasgood ◽  
Jen-Yu Chang ◽  
Robina Mir ◽  
Clara Mukuria ◽  
Philip A. Powell

Abstract Purpose Uncertainties exist in how respondents interpret response options in patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs), particularly across different domains and for different scale labels. The current study assessed how respondents quantitatively interpret common response options. Methods Members of the general public were recruited to this study via an online panel, stratified by age, gender, and having English as a first language. Participants completed background questions and were randomised to answer questions on one of three domains (i.e. loneliness (negatively phrased), happiness or activities (positively phrased)). Participants were asked to provide quantitative interpretations of response options (e.g. how many times per week is equal to “often”) and to order several common response options (e.g. occasionally, sometimes) on a 0–100 slider scale. Chi-squared tests and regression analyses were used to assess whether response options were interpreted consistently across domains and respondent characteristics. Results Data from 1377 participants were analysed. There was general consistency in quantifying the number of times over the last 7 days to which each response option referred. Response options were consistently assigned a lower value in the loneliness than happiness and activities domains. Individual differences, such as age and English as a second language, explained some significant variation in responses, but less than domain. Conclusion Members of the public quantify common response options in a similar way, but their quantification is not equivalent across domains or every type of respondent. Recommendations for the use of certain scale labels over others in PROM development are provided.


In the study of frustration reactions and stress tolerance in combatants with eye trauma and partial loss of vision against the background of clinical manifestations of posttraumatic syndrome (54 people), significant differences were found between those who took part in combat actions from clinical manifestations of post-traumatic syndrome without injury (46 people) and a group of patients having a domestic injury of the organs of vision with partial loss of it (59 people). Combatants demonstrated an extrapunitive response direction and a necessary recalcitrant type of reaction. In second place is their ego-defensive type of reaction. The presence of depressive, asthenic and aggressive response options. In the group with no injury, extrapunitive direction was observed more often. In the domestic character of damage, these indicators were significantly lower and approached the standard level. Participants in hostilities experienced varying levels of stress tolerance, depending on the methodology, and low levels in the case of domestic trauma. Comparison of the presence and relevance of frustrating and stressful factors showed their greater frequency and significance among combatants with and without injury. Thus, participants in combat operations with an eye injury with partial loss of vision and without it and the clinical manifestations of the post-traumatic syndrome are unidirectional and more pronounced with eye injury changes. With a domestic injury, they are much lower. This indicates the significant role of clinical manifestations of posttraumatic syndrome in the occurrence of mental disorders. This suggests the possibility of including in the action methods of psychological protection of the individual and adaptation to the presence of stress-frustration.


1999 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martha L. Wartick ◽  
Silvia A. Madeo ◽  
Cynthia C. Vines

During the past decade, the experimental economics method increasingly has been used to study the impact of tax policy on taxpayer behavior. Experimental economics in taxation typically tests tax applications of expected utility and psychological theory by creating a real microeconomy in the laboratory. A key requirement is strict control over the parameters of the experimental setting and subject preferences. One generally accepted procedure to achieve experimental control is to avoid references to real-world phenomena in instructions to subjects. The reasoning underlying this procedure is that if subjects associate the experiment with real-world phenomena, they may make decisions based on values associated with the real-world context instead of the rewards and penalties of the microeconomy. Despite this, several recent tax-reporting experiments that otherwise conform to the experimental economics method have used explicit tax terminology. In discussing the results of these experiments, the authors and commentators stated that the results probably were not affected by the tax context. We conducted an experiment to further examine whether the results of a tax-reporting experiment were affected by context. We found that subjects reported significantly more income when the context of the experiment was tax than when the context was nontax. This effect differed, however, depending on the age of the subjects. While subjects 25 years of age and older reported approximately twice as much income in the tax context as they did in the nontax context, subjects under 25 reported only slightly more in the tax context than in the nontax context. These results provide evidence that role playing based on individual subject characteristics occurred when contextual cues were provided.


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