COMPARISON OF ONLINE AND OFFLINE QUESTIONNAIRES FOR THE USE OF THE INTERNET IN PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH
Azimova Shokhista Salokhiddinovna, Tashkent University of Information Technologies named after Muhammah Al-Khwarizmi, Senior teacher
Keywords:
Internet, online, offline, data, psychologyAbstract
The uploading, exchanging, and gathering of data for research and data pertaining to psychology can be done effectively on the Internet. A new area of study in the social and behavioral sciences may be opened up by the relative affordability and convenience of building and maintaining Web-based apps, along with the ease of use offered by form-based surveys’ graphical user interfaces. This study compared Web-based assessment methods with conventional paper-based methods of various measures of Internet attitudes and behaviors in an Uzbek population in order to investigate the potential use of Internet tools in psychological research. To find variations between the two samples as well as between the psychometric properties of the questionnaires, the collected data were evaluated. Even while we discovered substantial changes in the attitudes and behaviors on the Internet between the two populations, there were no discernible variations in the psychometric characteristics of the various questionnaires. Given the lack of control over the features of the online sample, this result, which is similar to those previously observed in Web-based assessments of personality traits, is even more intriguing. These results show that Internet-based questionnaires may be a suitable substitute for more conventional paperbased measurements if sampling control and validity assessment are included
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