A comparison of self-report, systematic observation and third-party judgments of church attendance in a rural Fijian Village.

Social desirability reporting leads to over estimations of church attendance. To date, researchers have treated over-reporting of church attendance as a general phenomenon, and have been unable to determine the demographic correlates of inaccuracy in these self-reports. By comparing over eight month...

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Autores principales:	John H Shaver, Thomas A J White, Patrick Vakaoti, Martin Lang
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Publicado:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021
Materias:	Medicine R Science Q
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:0ace38191ea1462cb015e8e7ab527c6d2021-12-02T20:17:18ZA comparison of self-report, systematic observation and third-party judgments of church attendance in a rural Fijian Village.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0257160https://doaj.org/article/0ace38191ea1462cb015e8e7ab527c6d2021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0257160https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203Social desirability reporting leads to over estimations of church attendance. To date, researchers have treated over-reporting of church attendance as a general phenomenon, and have been unable to determine the demographic correlates of inaccuracy in these self-reports. By comparing over eight months of observational data on church attendance (n = 48 services) to self-report in a rural Fijian village, we find that 1) self-report does not reliably predict observed attendance, 2) women with two or more children (≥ 2) are more likely to over-report their attendance than women with fewer children (≤ 1), and 3) self-report of religiosity more reliably predicts observed church attendance than does self-report of church attendance. Further, we find that third-party judgements of church attendance by fellow villagers are more reliably associated with observed church attendance than self-report. Our findings suggest that researchers interested in estimating behavioral variation, particularly in domains susceptible to social desirability effects, should consider developing and employing third-party methods to mitigate biases inherent to self-report.John H ShaverThomas A J WhitePatrick VakaotiMartin LangPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 10, p e0257160 (2021)
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description	Social desirability reporting leads to over estimations of church attendance. To date, researchers have treated over-reporting of church attendance as a general phenomenon, and have been unable to determine the demographic correlates of inaccuracy in these self-reports. By comparing over eight months of observational data on church attendance (n = 48 services) to self-report in a rural Fijian village, we find that 1) self-report does not reliably predict observed attendance, 2) women with two or more children (≥ 2) are more likely to over-report their attendance than women with fewer children (≤ 1), and 3) self-report of religiosity more reliably predicts observed church attendance than does self-report of church attendance. Further, we find that third-party judgements of church attendance by fellow villagers are more reliably associated with observed church attendance than self-report. Our findings suggest that researchers interested in estimating behavioral variation, particularly in domains susceptible to social desirability effects, should consider developing and employing third-party methods to mitigate biases inherent to self-report.
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title_short	A comparison of self-report, systematic observation and third-party judgments of church attendance in a rural Fijian Village.
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A comparison of self-report, systematic observation and third-party judgments of church attendance in a rural Fijian Village.

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