A HUN-REN Társadalomtudományi Kutatóközpont (MTA Kiváló Kutatóhely) 

Szociológiai Intézete 

tisztelettel meghívja 141. Jour Fixe eseményére

 

He said, she said: Gender of Interviewer Effects and the Role of the Interviewers’ Gender Attitudes in the Hungarian ESS

 

 

Előadók: Messing Vera (HUN-REN TK SZI), Stefkovics Ádám (HUN-REN TK RECENS)

Hozzászólók: Galántai Júlia (HUN-REN TK SZI) 

Időpont: 2024. szeptember 19. csütörtök 13:00

Helyszín: Az eseményt hibrid formában tartjuk meg.

Személyesen: Szociológiai Intézet 1097 Budapest Tóth Kálmán utca 4.;  B.1.15 tárgyaló

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Absztrakt: 

The measurement of gender attitudes in face-to-face surveys can be problematic due to gender of interviewer effects. When dealing with sensitive gender-related questions respondents may downplay their genuine beliefs to avoid potential negative judgment from an interviewer of a particular gender or they may emphatically align their responses with perceived socially accepted opinions. In this study, we examine direct and indirect gender of interviewer effects. In addition, we extend prior studies by asking whether the interviewers' own gender attitudes are associated with the respondents' attitudes. We use the 11th round of the European Social Survey in Hungary which contained a module on gender attitudes. In a unique setting, interviewers were asked to answer the same survey, resulting in 1943 interviewer-respondent dyads available for analysis. The results of the multilevel models suggest no direct effects of the gender of the interviewer and weak indirect effects across different types of attitudes. However, the interviewer’s gender attitudes strongly and positively predicted the respondent’s same attitudes in many cases.  We recommend future face-to-face survey research to control for some key attitudinal characteristics of the interviewer and focus on objectivity and self-expression during interviewer training.

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