Toni, Babarovic;
Krpanec, E;
Blazev, M;
Devic, I;
Downey, S;
Huttunen, I;
Panico, L;
... Pollock, G; + view all
(2024)
Children's understanding of well-being related questions: results of cognitive interviews in four European countries.
International Journal of Social Research Methodology
, 28
(2)
pp. 163-178.
10.1080/13645579.2024.2312621.
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Abstract
This paper presents the results of cognitive interviews with 8-year-old children from four European countries–Croatia, France, Finland, and Ireland. The aim of the interviews was to pre-test a selection of well-being-related questions as a part of questionnaire development for the first European multinational birth cohort study–Growing up in Digital Europe (GUIDE)/EuroCohort. Unlike most previous studies, we focused on a younger and more age-homogenous sample, as well as a more diverse set of well-known questionnaires. A total of 68 children participated in the study. The main suggestion for the interviewing procedure is to create a safe environment yet minimize the parents’ interference in answering. The questionnaires should use child-friendly vocabulary, tangible examples, avoid complex sentence structure and negative statements. The use of timeframes in questions should be minimal. The children can use Likert-type scales, but the number of different scales in the questionnaire should be limited.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Children's understanding of well-being related questions: results of cognitive interviews in four European countries |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/13645579.2024.2312621 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2024.2312621 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
| Keywords: | Cognitive interview; questionnaire development; children, well-being; cross-cultural comparison |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10207325 |
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