NCJ Number
114382
Journal
Social Science Quarterly Volume: 69 Issue: 3 Dated: (September 1988) Pages: 764-772
Date Published
1988
Length
9 pages
Annotation
A part-whole question-order experiment was conducted to investigate order effects on the determinants of how individuals evaluate their neighborhoods.
Abstract
It was expected that perceived neighborhood safety would have a greater effect on neighborhood satisfaction when the safety question preceded rather than followed the satisfaction questions (a consistency effect), and that the order effect would be greater for blacks than for whites. No order effect was found for whites, but a consistency effect occurred for blacks living in low-crime neighborhoods. (Author abstract)