91,300 responses from 913 respondents to 230 items.
| Description | Words don’t come easy: How lexical difficulty of items and vocabulary of subjects (not) affect personality assessment |
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| Reference | Altgassen, E., Schittenhelm, C., & Wilhelm, O. (2025, October 8). How Lexical Difficulty of Items and Vocabulary of Subjects (Not) Affect Personality Assessment. Retrieved from osf.io/s6q8t |
| DOI | 10.1037/pspp0000572 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
| Source data | https://osf.io/s6q8t/overview |
| Responses | 91,300 |
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| Respondents | 913 |
| Items | 230 |
| Response categories | 5 |
| Responses per respondent | 100 |
| Responses per item | 396.957 |
| Density | 0.435 |
| Longitudinal | FALSE |
| age range | Adult (18+) |
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| sample | Internet-based |
| construct type | Personality |
| measurement tool | Survey/questionnaire |
| item format | Likert Scale/selected response |
| primary language(s) | eng |
| construct name | Personality |
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Or load it directly in R or Python:
# R
install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("itemresponsewarehouse/Rpkg")
library(irw)
df <- irw_fetch("lexical_difficulty_altgassen_2025_s01_personality")
# Python
pip install irw
import irw
df = irw.fetch("lexical_difficulty_altgassen_2025_s01_personality")
| IRW version | v393 |
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| Redivis dataset | item_response_warehouse_2 v19.0 |
| Redivis dataset DOI | 10.57761/qtx5-4m80 |
| Manifest pin for this IRW version | v19.0 |
| Metadata source | irw_meta v23.0 |