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Deficits in executive functioning and self-regulation, which are characteristic
of many rehabilitation populations, can interfere with the provision of accurate
and reliable responses to surveys designed to measure psychosocial constructs,
including community participation. Using the Cognitive Aspects of Survey
Methodology paradigm, survey researchers have found that respondents proceed
through 4 processes that draw heavily on executive functions: (1) question
comprehension and interpretation, (2) retrieval of applicable information from
memory, (3) integration of retrieved information to form a judgment, and (4)
configuration or mapping of the judgment to the response choices. Respondents
without cognitive deficits frequently make errors because of challenges to their
executive functions; it should therefore be anticipated that persons with
deficits in executive functions will have even greater difficulties providing
consistent and accurate responses. Research with persons with executive
functioning deficits that empirically evaluates the various strategies
recommended by survey researchers is sorely needed. At a minimum, survey design
and administration should take into account potential sources of error resulting
from executive functioning deficits by testing and incorporating strategies for
reducing error.
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