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The Tendency to Omit Items: Another Deviant Response Characteristic

Centre for Behavioural Studies, University of New England, Armidale, N. S. W. 2351, Australia

It is argued that the tendency to omit items is a deviant response characteristic. Three studies are outlined and it is concluded that persons who omitted items on an inventory purporting to measure self-actualization did so because of fatigue, confusion with some items, because they were not prepared to disclose information, and/or because they may not have trusted the researcher with certain information.

Educational and Psychological Measurement, Vol. 43, No. 4, 1041-1045 (1983)
DOI: 10.1177/001316448304300412


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