Who agrees more? The role of age, education, and the ability to solve verbal analogies in acquiescence

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2024-07-03 DOI:10.5114/cipp/186715

Patrik Havan, P. Halama, Vladimíra Čavojová, Michal Kohút

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Abstract

Acquiescence as one of the response styles is the participant’s tendency to shift answers to agreement rather than to disa-greement regardless of the items’ content. Acquiescence together with other response styles could be a serious threat to the results of research. It can be affected by several individual characteristics including cognitive abilities. We explored the rela-tionship between the ability to solve verbal analogies, age, education, and acquiescence.The sample contained 210 participants, 109 men and 101 women with age ranging from 17 to 70 (M = 45.11, SD = 13.66). The data were collected through an online panel of a research agency. We used Rosenberg’s Self-Esteem Scale (RSES) for estimating acquiescence and 10 tasks for measuring the ability to solve verbal analogies.We found a significant relationship between acquiescence and age with a medium effect and non-significant relationships between acquiescence, the ability to solve verbal analogies, and education.Education seems not to be an adequate variable as a proxy for cognitive variables, and the ability to solve verbal analogies probably does not affect acquiescence in general. However, the existence of a negative relationship between age and acquies-cence is quite surprising, and it could be caused by better developed self-identity of older participants.

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谁更同意？年龄、教育程度和解决语言类比问题的能力在默许中的作用

默许是一种反应方式，是指被试倾向于将答案转向同意而不是不同意，无论项目内容如何。默认与其他反应方式一起可能会对研究结果造成严重威胁。它可能受到包括认知能力在内的多个个体特征的影响。我们探讨了解决言语类比问题的能力、年龄、教育程度和默许之间的关系。样本包含 210 名参与者，其中男性 109 人，女性 101 人，年龄从 17 岁到 70 岁不等（M = 45.11，SD = 13.66）。数据通过一家研究机构的在线小组收集。我们使用罗森伯格自尊量表（RSES）来估算默许度，并使用 10 项任务来测量解决言语类比的能力。我们发现默许度与年龄之间存在显著关系，影响程度为中等，而默许度、解决言语类比的能力和教育程度之间的关系不显著。然而，年龄与默许之间存在负相关关系却令人十分惊讶，这可能是由于年龄较大的参与者自我认同感较强所致。

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

CiteScore

31.40

自引率

1.10%

发文量

312

审稿时长

2 months

期刊介绍： Accounts of Chemical Research presents short, concise and critical articles offering easy-to-read overviews of basic research and applications in all areas of chemistry and biochemistry. These short reviews focus on research from the author’s own laboratory and are designed to teach the reader about a research project. In addition, Accounts of Chemical Research publishes commentaries that give an informed opinion on a current research problem. Special Issues online are devoted to a single topic of unusual activity and significance. Accounts of Chemical Research replaces the traditional article abstract with an article "Conspectus." These entries synopsize the research affording the reader a closer look at the content and significance of an article. Through this provision of a more detailed description of the article contents, the Conspectus enhances the article's discoverability by search engines and the exposure for the research.