DocumentCode :
2639053
Title :
A comparison of World Wide Web and paper-and-pencil mental health scales
Author :
Dai, Bibing ; Shi, Xianghui ; Li, Juan
Author_Institution :
Key Lab. of Mental Health, Chinese Acad. of Sci., Beijing, China
fYear :
2010
fDate :
16-17 Aug. 2010
Firstpage :
411
Lastpage :
415
Abstract :
The purpose of this study was to compare data collected via online surveys to via paper-and-pencil ones in mental health fields. Two groups of participants completed the Adult Adaptation Inventory (AAI) and Self-rating depression scale (SDS) either in online format or in paper-and-pencil format independently. Data collected via paper-and-pencil surveys had more missing data than Internet-based ones. As for internal consistency, there were no significant differences in AAI between both two groups, while internal consistency of SDS in the online format was much higher than in the paper-and-pencil format. There was measurement invariance of both two scales across the two conditions. Finally, there were no significant differences in mean scores of both two scales between both two formats. The basic similarity of the properties across the two conditions suggests the viability of the Internet-based surveys for assessing mental health status of adults.
Keywords :
Internet; Web sites; World Wide Web; adult adaptation inventory; online surveys; paper-and-pencil mental health scales; self-rating depression scale; Adaptation model; Computers; Instruments; Internet; Load modeling; Loading; Psychology; Paper-and-pencil; World Wide Web; adaptation; depression; format; scale;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Web Society (SWS), 2010 IEEE 2nd Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Beijing
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6356-5
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/SWS.2010.5607415
Filename :
5607415
Link To Document :
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