Self Reporting Techniques

Roshlin Sheeba Rani D.R

Assistant Professor of Physical
Science
 Self reporting Techniques
• Self reporting Techniques is the
respondent himself provides answers to
items in the given questionnaire,
concerning his characteristics or
behavior, either orally or in the written
form.
• The investigator gathers answers from the
respondent by reaching out the questionnaire
to them either in person ,through post or
phone.
• In interview the interviewer asks questions to
the interviewee and gets his answers directly
in a face to face situation, besides noticing his
mood, likes, dislikes, fears etc.
Examples for self reporting techniques

• Questionnaire
• Opinionaire
• Check list
• Interest inventory
• Attitude Scale
• Woodworth’s Personal data sheet
• Bells Adjustment Inventory
• The Minnesotta Multiphasic Personality
inventory(MMPI)
• S.P. Ahluwalia’s Teaching attitude Inventory
• Strong – Campbell interest inventory
• Thurston’s Occupational Interest Inventory
Advantages of Self – reporting Techniques

• Answers are obtained directly from the

respondents, the gathered responses/
information are highly valid.

• Large amount of data can be obtained very

quickly and cheaply.
• Left out data could be easily obtained back,
hence the data collected using self reporting
techniques are highly reliable.

• Data obtained form a closed form of questions

can be easily tabulated and analyzed
 Disadvantages of Self Reporting
Techniques
• We cannot expect that all the respondents will
be giving answers or expressing their ideas to
items in the self reporting device completely
and honestly without any hiding.
• The reliability of the data collected using self
reporting devices is mostly low.
• There are chances for questions for being
misunderstood and answered accordingly.
• The answers provided by the respondents may
be influenced by their mood and emotions at
the time of answering the self reporting device.
• Most of the self reporting devices contain fixed
choice of questions and lack f.lexibility.
• No opportunity is given to include
supplementary .
• Low response rate.
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