What about errors o Disadvantages of self reports in measuring ability, or multiple intelligences, desirability, bias, could you help me ,please?i want to alot of study about Self reports Disadvantages in measuring abilities, or multiple intelligences, because i am research this point ,i hope to help me.
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Our group has studied relationships of global self-rated health (one item on a scale of 1-5 from poor to excellent), reports of chronic illnesses, symptoms, disability, medical utilization and physiological disregulation. Self-rated health is very popular because it is correlated with and predicts mortality and is cheap and easy to do. However, as pointed out by the other commentator here, it has limitations. We have found that women tend to over-report and men under-report. This is consistent with other literature. Importantly, we have found that women who are chronically stressed (persons caring for a spouse with AD) have higher self-rated health than women non-caregivers and men caregivers. However, the converse is true for physiological measures in comparisons of men and women caregivers (see our Psychological Bulletin paper, 2003). Men caregivers under-report health problems, but they are physiologically dysregulated relative to men controls and women caregivers. We are currently comparing medical records for chronic illnesses to self-reports of such illnesses. Other factors that are known to influence self-rated health are personality indicators (neurotic ism), etc. It is always wise to measure a characteristic in multiple independent ways. We focus on health, but many other states/traits will need the same multi-pronged approach for best estimates.
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