TY - CHAP AU - Orbán, Ferenc AU - Stefkovics, Ádám ED - Stefkovics, Ádám ED - Pillók, Péter TI - Az Európai Unióba vetett bizalom mozgatórugói. T2 - Századvég Riport 2024 PB - Századvég Közéleti Tudásközpont Alapítvány CY - Budapest T3 - Századvég riport ... : társadalom, gazdaság és politika napjainkban, ISSN 2939-8061 PY - 2024 SP - 457 EP - 472 PG - 16 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/35193452 ID - 35193452 LA - Hungarian DB - MTMT ER - TY - CHAP AU - Orbán, Ferenc AU - Stefkovics, Ádám ED - Stefkovics, Ádám ED - Pillók, Péter TI - Új politikai törésvonalak T2 - Századvég Riport 2024 PB - Századvég Közéleti Tudásközpont Alapítvány CY - Budapest T3 - Századvég riport ... : társadalom, gazdaság és politika napjainkban, ISSN 2939-8061 PY - 2024 SP - 11 EP - 32 PG - 22 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/35191809 ID - 35191809 LA - Hungarian DB - MTMT ER - TY - BOOK ED - Stefkovics, Ádám ED - Pillók, Péter TI - Századvég Riport 2024. Tanulmányok gazdaságról, politikáról, társadalomról TS - Tanulmányok gazdaságról, politikáról, társadalomról T3 - Századvég riport ... : társadalom, gazdaság és politika napjainkban, ISSN 2939-8061 PB - Századvég Közéleti Tudásközpont Alapítvány CY - Budapest PY - 2024 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/35188958 ID - 35188958 LA - Hungarian DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Stefkovics, Ádám AU - Krekó, Péter AU - Koltai, Júlia Anna TI - When reality knocks on the door. The effect of conspiracy beliefs on COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and the moderating role of experience with the virus JF - SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE J2 - SOC SCI MED VL - 356 PY - 2024 PG - 8 SN - 0277-9536 DO - 10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.117149 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/35147997 ID - 35147997 LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Stefkovics, Ádám AU - Höhne, Jan Karem TI - Examining the Link between the ‘Middle Means Typical’ Heuristic and Answer Behavior JF - Survey Practice J2 - Surv Pract VL - 1 PY - 2024 IS - 1 SP - 1 EP - 13 PG - 13 SN - 2168-0094 DO - 10.29115/SP-2024-0009 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/35141144 ID - 35141144 AB - Question interpretation in web surveys may not only depend on the textual content but also on visual design aspects. Research has shown that respondents seem to make use of interpretative heuristics when answering questions potentially influencing their answer behavior. In this study, we investigate the implications of the ‘middle means typical’ (MMT) heuristic, which suggests that respondents perceive the middle option of a scale as the most typical one. For this purpose, we use data from a survey experiment embedded in the probability-based German Internet Panel (N = 4,679) varying the inclusion of a non-substantive “Don’t know” option (with or without separation from the substantive options) and scale polarity (unipolar or bipolar). The four questions under investigation were adopted from the Big5 inventory dealing with agreeableness and openness. The results suggest that the MMT heuristic has a minor impact on answer behavior, as the separation of non-substantive options did not affect answer distributions and response times (as a measure of response effort). However, scale polarity influenced answer behavior and response times. Similar to what has been observed in previous studies, unipolar scales elicited more middle answers and bipolar scales elicited more positive answers. Bipolar scales also resulted in longer response times. Although design violations against the MMT heuristic do not seem to impact answer behavior, we still recommend exercising caution when designing scales with non-substantive options. We also highlight the necessity of testing scales differing with respect to polarity. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Stefkovics, Ádám AU - Albert, Fruzsina Ildikó AU - Ligeti, Anna Sára AU - Pethesné Dávid, Beáta AU - Rudas, Szilvia AU - Koltai, Júlia Anna TI - Vaccination homophily in ego contact networks during the COVID-19 pandemic JF - SCIENTIFIC REPORTS J2 - SCI REP VL - 14 PY - 2024 PG - 12 SN - 2045-2322 DO - 10.1038/s41598-024-65986-2 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/35089424 ID - 35089424 N1 - National Laboratory for Health Security, HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences, Budapest, Hungary IQSS, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States Institute for Sociology, HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences, Budapest, Hungary Institute of Mental Health, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary Department of Social Research Methodology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary Export Date: 30 July 2024 Correspondence Address: Koltai, J.; National Laboratory for Health Security, Hungary; email: koltai.julia@tk.hu AB - Vaccine hesitancy is an inevitable risk for societies as it contributes to outbreaks of diseases. Prior research suggests that vaccination decisions of individuals tend to spread within social networks, resulting in a tendency to vaccination homophily. The clustering of individuals resistant to vaccination can substantially make the threshold necessary to achieve herd immunity harder to reach. In this study, we examined the extent of vaccination homophily among social contacts and its association with vaccine uptake during the COVID-19 pandemic in Hungary using a contact diary approach in two cross-sectional surveys. The results indicate strong clustering among both vaccinated and unvaccinated groups. The most powerful predictor of vaccine uptake was the perceived vaccination rate within the egos’ social contact network. Vaccination homophily and the role of the interpersonal contact network in vaccine uptake were particularly pronounced in the networks of close relationships, including family, kinship, and strong social ties of the ego. Our findings have important implications for understanding COVID-19 spread dynamics by showing that the strong clustering of unvaccinated individuals posed a great risk in preventing the spread of the disease. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - BOOK AU - Stefkovics, Ádám TI - Hova tovább, magyar választáskutatás? Egy adatvezérelt módszertani értekezés PB - Századvég Kiadó CY - Budapest PY - 2024 SN - 9786156436399 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34818249 ID - 34818249 LA - Hungarian DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Kmetty, Zoltán AU - Stefkovics, Ádám AU - Számely, Júlia AU - Deng, Dongning AU - Kellner, Anikó AU - Pauló, Edit AU - Omodei, Elisa AU - Koltai, Júlia Anna TI - Determinants of willingness to donate data from social media platforms JF - INFORMATION COMMUNICATION AND SOCIETY J2 - INF COMM SOC VL - Online first PY - 2024 SP - 1 EP - 26 PG - 26 SN - 1369-118X DO - 10.1080/1369118X.2024.2340995 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34795481 ID - 34795481 AB - Social media data donation through data download packages (DDPs) is a promising new way of collecting individual-level digital trace data with informed consent. Nevertheless, given the novelty of this approach, little is known about whether and how people would share their data with researchers, although this could seriously affect selection bias and thus, the outer validity of the results. To study the determinants of data-sharing and help future data donation studies with detecting the conditions, under which the willingness is the highest, we pre-registered two vignette experiments and embedded them in two online surveys conducted in Hungary and the US. In hypothetical requests for donating social media data via DDPs, we manipulated the amount of the monetary incentives (1), the presence or lack of non-monetary incentives (2), the number of requested platforms (3), the estimated upload/download time (4), and the type of requested data (5). The results revealed that data-sharing attitude is strongly subject to the parameters of the actual study, how the request is framed, and some respondent characteristics. Monetary incentives increased willingness to participate in both countries, while other effects were not consistent between the two countries. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Stefkovics, Ádám AU - Eichhorst, Angela AU - Skinnion, Dominic AU - Harrison, Chase H TI - Are We Becoming More Transparent? Survey Reporting Trends in Top Journals of Social Sciences JF - INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PUBLIC OPINION RESEARCH J2 - INT J PUBLIC OPIN R VL - 36 PY - 2024 IS - 2 SP - 1 EP - 6 PG - 6 SN - 0954-2892 DO - 10.1093/ijpor/edae013 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34774287 ID - 34774287 AB - Transparency is essential for objectively evaluating or replicating any study’s findings. Although several reporting standards and guidelines exist for survey research, these standards are not adopted or enforced by most academic journals, and thus, transparency in survey research has been relatively low. This study documents and compares trends in transparency in survey research. We reviewed 899 articles that used 1,237 original surveys and were published in top journals in the fields of political science, sociology, and public opinion research between 2011 and 2021. The results show small changes in reporting different survey characteristics during the observed period. Nevertheless, we found that the majority of the articles did not provide responses or other rates, and a strong decrease was observed in transparency regarding response rates. Our results underscore the importance of promoting reporting standards and enforcing rules more rigorously. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Stefkovics, Ádám AU - Ágoston, Csilla AU - Bukovenszki, Emőke AU - Dúll, Andrea AU - Hortay, Olivér AU - Varga, Attila TI - Climate change worry in the times of the COVID-19 pandemic. Evidence from two large-scale European surveys JF - CLIMATE RISK MANAGEMENT J2 - CLIM RISK MANAG VL - 44 PY - 2024 PG - 11 SN - 2212-0963 DO - 10.1016/j.crm.2024.100599 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34763428 ID - 34763428 N1 - HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences, Budapest, Hungary Századvég Foundation, Budapest, Hungary Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States Institute of People-Environment Transaction, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary Doctoral School of Psychology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary Department of Sociology and Communication, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary Department of Finance, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary Export Date: 2 April 2024 Correspondence Address: Stefkovics, Á.; HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences, 1097 Budapest, Tóth Kálmán street 4, Hungary; email: stefkovics.adam@tk.hu AB - Climate change beliefs drive individual actions tackling climate change and influence the support of climate change policies. In the last two years, however, humanity has faced a parallel global crisis: the COVID-19 pandemic. The widely communicated finite pool of worry theory suggests that consideration of a crisis usually decreases when another crisis is emerging. Nevertheless, according to recent evidence, climate change concerns or awareness have increased during the pandemic. In this study, we aimed at describing recent changes in climate change concerns and examining the effect of COVID-fear on climate change worry in 28 European countries drawing on data from nationally representative surveys. We observed a strong increase in climate change concerns between 2016 and 2021, and a slight additional increase between during the pandemic (between 2020 and 2021) in the 28 countries examined, especially in those countries, where the level of concern was originally lower. The results of the multilevel models showed that COVID-19 fear reinforces climate change concerns which contradicts the finite pool of worry theory. These findings may come as good news given that increasing climate change concerns may raise individuals' support of climate policies, however, carefully designed awareness-raising campaigns are needed. © 2024 The Authors LA - English DB - MTMT ER -