Self-selection biases in psychological studies: Personality and affective disorders are prevalent among participants

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作者
Kazmierczak, Izabela K. [1 ]
Zajenkowska, Anna [1 ]
Rogoza, Radoslaw [2 ,3 ]
Jonason, Peter K. [4 ]
Scigala, Dawid [1 ]
机构
[1] Mar Grzegorzewska Univ, Inst Psychol, Warsaw, Poland
[2] Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski Univ, Inst Psychol, Warsaw, Poland
[3] Univ Lleida, Social Innovat Chair, Lleida, Spain
[4] Univ Padua, Dept Gen Psychol, Padua, Italy
来源
PLOS ONE | 2023年 / 18卷 / 03期
关键词
HOSPITAL ANXIETY;
D O I
10.1371/journal.pone.0281046
中图分类号
O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
Respondents select the type of psychological studies that they want to participate in consistence with their needs and individual characteristics, which creates an unintentional self-selection bias. The question remains whether participants attracted by psychological studies may have more psychological dysfunctions related to personality and affective disorders compared to the general population. We investigated (N = 947; 62% women) whether the type of the invitation (to talk about recent critical or regular life events) or the source of the data (either face-to-face or online) attracts people with different psychopathology. Most importantly, participants who alone applied to take part in paid psychological studies had more symptoms of personality disorders than those who had never before applied to take part in psychological studies. The current results strongly translate into a recommendation for either the modification of recruitment strategies or much greater caution when generalizing results for this methodological reason.
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