title: Identifying careless responses in questionnaire research: a serendipitous finding.
abstract: The present study describes a possible method by which potentially meaningless responses to questionnaires can be easily identified. Given an inadvertent mistake in the design of a questionnaire packet, we found that 10% of respondents provided invalid responses to items.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville 37996-0900, USA. rpiferi@utk.edu
authors.forename: Rachel L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Piferi
authors.forename: Rebecca L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Jobe
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012106:Research / Q000592:standards*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires