Psicothema was founded in Asturias (northern Spain) in 1989, and is published jointly by the Psychology Faculty of the University of Oviedo and the Psychological Association of the Principality of Asturias (Colegio Oficial de Psicología del Principado de Asturias).
We currently publish four issues per year, which accounts for some 100 articles annually. We admit work from both the basic and applied research fields, and from all areas of Psychology, all manuscripts being anonymously reviewed prior to publication.
Psicothema, 2007. Vol. Vol. 19 (nº 2). 337-342
Pere J. Ferrando y Josep Demestre
Universidad Rovira i Virgili
Se evalúan algunas características de los ítems de personalidad que se espera afecten al tiempo de respuesta obtenido en una administración informatizada. En primer lugar, se discuten los resultados de estudios previos y se propone un marco teórico general desde el que establecer una serie de predicciones. En segundo lugar, estas predicciones se contrastan empíricamente utilizando dos conjuntos de datos, uno de ellos basado en ítems binarios y el otro en ítems de respuesta graduada. Algunos de los resultados obtenidos son nuevos, y el resto tiende a concordar con los resultados obtenidos en estudios previos. Se discuten las implicaciones de los resultados para la utilización de las latencias en estudios de tipo aplicado.
Item characteristics that predict response latency in personality measures. This study assesses some item characteristics that are expected to affect response latencies in the computerized administration of a personality questionnaire. First, some previous empirical results are discussed, and a theoretical framework from which predictions can be made is proposed. Second, the predictions are empirically assessed using two data-sets, one of them based on binary items, and the other one based on graded-response items. Some of the results obtained are new, whereas the remaining agree with previous empirical results. The implicatons of the present results in applied research, and particularly for the use of latencies, is discussed.